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    Category: Publications

    An ‘amplifier’ for missed signals produced by our bodies

    January 14, 2025

    By Lisa La Vallee

    New discovery makes system monitoring contaminants in drinking water 10 times more sensitive  

    Are implantable, living pharmacies within reach?

    October 17, 2024

    By Lisa La Vallee

    Cell-based drug factories could produce therapies on demand inside patients

    Minerals Play Newly Discovered Role in Earth’s Phosphorus Cycle

    July 19, 2024

    By Lisa La Vallee

    New research finds that iron oxide in soils can recycle phosphorus from organic matter.

    Transporting Precious Cargo Using the Body’s Own Delivery System

    July 17, 2024

    By Lisa La Vallee

    Advances ‘get us one step closer to the ultimate goal of targeted biological drug delivery’

    Northwestern researchers propose a new, holistic way to teach synthetic biology

    June 27, 2024

    By Lisa La Vallee

    The field of synthetic biology, the science of manipulating biology, has a lot of “cooks in the kitchen,” which has both helped it flourish and made it unusually difficult to … Continued

    Soil bacteria respire more CO2 after eating non-sugar organic matter

    June 12, 2024

    By Lisa La Vallee

    New study helps disentangle microbes’ role in global carbon cycle.

    Revealing new insights on membrane protein organization

    May 28, 2024

    By Ashty Karim

    Neha Kamat and her team uncovers how differences in the thickness of biological membranes can impact a protein’s ability to insert and move within membranes.

    Using Cancer’s Strength to Fight Against It

    February 7, 2024

    By Lisa La Vallee

    New technique made human T-cells 100 times more potent at killing cancer cells.

    Engineering viruses to kill deadly pathogens

    January 31, 2024

    By Lisa La Vallee

    Study marks critical step in creating new therapies to treat antibiotic-resistant infections

    New platform solves key problems in targeted drug delivery

    November 27, 2023

    By Lisa La Vallee

    Northwestern University synthetic biologists have developed a flexible new platform that removes barriers for promising cell and gene therapies.

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