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    Category: Publications

    The Lucks Lab has Created New Methods to Study How RNAs Fold as They are Synthesized

    April 12, 2017

    By Ashty Karim

    This entry was posted in News on April 10, 2017 by Khalid Alam Eric and Kyle’s paper “ Distributed biotin-streptavidin transcription roadblocks for mapping cotranscriptional RNA folding” is now online at … Continued

    Rewiring human cells to engineer novel therapies: Dr. Joshua N. Leonard’s Group Publishes in Nature Chemical Biology

    December 12, 2016

    By Ashty Karim

    Image by Joshua Leonard and Kelly Schwarz. Cell image by NIAID/NIH, used and modified under Creative Commons 2.0 license.

    Watching RNA Fold: New Technology Takes a Nucleotide-Resolution Snapshot of RNA Folding During Synthesis

    November 2, 2016

    By Ashty Karim

    Reshaping the Virus. Dr. Dannielle Tullman-Ercek Develops a Smaller Virus for Drug Delivery

    October 11, 2016

    By Ashty Karim

    Researchers Design First Artificial Ribosome

    July 29, 2015

    By Ashty Karim

    Researchers at Northwestern and the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered an artificial ribosome, which may enable the production of new drugs and next-generation biomaterials.

    Building ‘Smart’ Cell-Based Therapies

    April 16, 2014

    By Ashty Karim

    Synthetic biologist Joshua Leonard and his team have developed a technology for engineering human cells as therapies that become activated only in diseased tissues.

    Mimicking Living Cells: Synthesizing Ribosomes

    July 28, 2013

    By Ashty Karim

    Northwestern synthetic biology researchers, working with partners at Harvard Medical School, have for the first time synthesized protein-generating cell structures called ribosomes in a test tube.

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