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The Julius B. Lucks Lab for RNA Engineering @NorthwesternU @NUSynBio
Evanston, IL
Joined October 2016
ROSALIND 3.0 is out in @nchembio ! Cell-free biosensors are revolutionizing point-of-care diagnostics, but we need greater sensitivity to detect harmful chemicals. Enter: Polymerase Strand Recycling (PSR) — a game-changer for signal amplification! 🌟 https://t.co/jTpVnW972B
nature.com
Nature Chemical Biology - A signal amplification circuit based on recycling nucleic acid inputs with RNA polymerase off-target transcription improves the sensitivity of transcription factor-based...
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https://t.co/wCkyDCLWrD for more about our technology, our field trial of at-home lead tests, and how you can get involved and get tested.
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Chicago has a big problem with lead in drinking water and we are helping to solve it with at-home biosensor tests. https://t.co/Ws6Ke66cyZ
chicago.suntimes.com
Months past a November 2024 deadline, most Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe.
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1/10 ML can solve PDEs – but precision🔬is still a challenge. Towards high-precision methods for scientific problems, we introduce BWLer 🎳, a new architecture for physics-informed learning achieving (near-)machine-precision (up to 10⁻¹² RMSE) on benchmark PDEs. 🧵How it works:
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Why is @NUsynbio so great - it's the people. Check out our latest staff profile of our incredible Director of Operations Yael Mayer! https://t.co/e4pBSx3z1m
syntheticbiology.northwestern.edu
We recently sat down with Yael Mayer, the Center for Synthetic Biology’s (CSB) Director of Operations and Outreach, to learn more about her path to Northwestern, her passion for staff … Continued
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Check out the latest @RNASociety spotlight of Lucks Lab Alumn Professor Angela Yu! https://t.co/uoKZsC26fd
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Research cuts impact everyone. @NUSynBio trying to get the word out: https://t.co/NeML8nBGJS
syntheticbiology.northwestern.edu
When the Trump administration announced its $790 million funding freeze for Northwestern University, halting important research in labs across the university, Center for Synthetic Biology leaders...
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Research is for everyone. Grateful to @WBEZ to talk about why research is important and why stopping hurts people and our leadership as the #1 country for innovation. https://t.co/zPFoIdRCfX
wbez.org
Northwestern researchers received notices from the Department of Defense to stop their work immediately.
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Here's to @LucksLab killing it on @WBEZreset today, laying out the damage that the random ransacking of @DeptofDefense grants means for edu, innovation & water 🚰 🧪safety. "If you wind the whole thing down, where are the new ideas going to come from?"
wbez.org
Northwestern researchers received notices from the Department of Defense to stop their work immediately.
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Research that benefits everyone is being cut. This is real. The wonderful people at @NUSynBio are working hard to help people. This jeopardizes all of it.
It brings me no pleasure to post today's coverage of the assault on science being wrought by the bonkers federal clowns. This @Suntimes story features damage to my husband's lab. If critical @DeptofDefense work isn't even spared... @LucksLab @NUSynBio
https://t.co/yNnXckBwnY
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Congrats to @ChappellLab (a @NUSynBio alumni!) on their latest in @NatureBiotech : https://t.co/gbSV3CPcWI Amazing RNA engineering applied to track microbial ecosystems!
nature.com
Nature Biotechnology - Barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a recording of gene transfer events without requiring translation.
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We are proud to share that Julius Lucks, co-director of @NUSynBio, has been elected a 2024 AAAS Fellow! We are so fortunate to benefit from his passion and commitment to research excellence and innovation. Congratulations @LucksLab!
Professors Julius Lucks and James Rondinelli have been elected 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest general scientific society in the world. Congrats, Julius and James! https://t.co/ZTfoGTb8dd
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Let's make a bunch of cell-free #synbio biosensors, with a robot! New paper out lead by Dylan Brown and Dan Phillips in @ACSSynBio with @MichaelCJewett and a whole cast! https://t.co/MzooH1dQdG
pubs.acs.org
Cell-free synthetic biology biosensors have potential as effective in vitro diagnostic technologies for the detection of chemical compounds, such as toxins and human health biomarkers. They have...
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New water tech out of the lab covered by @SynBioBeta: https://t.co/x7fVm3BZo2 Synbio+nanotech mashup detecting lead down to 1ppb in minutes.
synbiobeta.com
Scientists at Northwestern have combined nanotechnology and synthetic biology to create an ultra-sensitive water contamination test that detects toxins in minutes
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Contamination Detection Tool Enables Highly Sensitive Water Testing A product of multi-disciplinary Northwestern Engineering research, the cantilever-based test detects harmful chemicals in water at concentrations down to parts per billion. https://t.co/loFCZlHUVi
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@NorthwesternEng @LucksLab @NUSynBio @nu_chbe @TrienensInst Great collaboration between Gajendra Shekhawat of SPID/ NUANCE and Julius Lucks of Synthetic Biology. Remarkable to see unusual combo of biomolecular interactions anchored on microfabricated platform for water sensing! Just wow!!
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A new joint initiative between @NUFeinbergMed and @NorthwesternEng aims to steer the development of new research “neighborhoods” on Northwestern’s Chicago campus, expanding on current research priorities, which include #syntheticbiology. https://t.co/GDVnG3MZ62
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One of the many reasons @NUSynBio is so great - the amazing people! Check out the profile of Christine Akdeniz, our incredible senior education and outreach coordinator: https://t.co/3QjBzGe6qC
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See this and much more in this tour de force work: "RNA folding kinetics control riboswitch sensitivity" https://t.co/WQdsEszFtJ
nature.com
Nature Communications - Riboswitches are RNA sensors that allow bacteria to sense and respond to their environment. Here, Bushhouse et al. demonstrate that the sensitivity of several riboswitches...
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