Archive ‘Mirror-image’ protein factories could one day make durable drugs the body can’t break down October 2022 Expanding the Chemistry of Living Systems: how ribosomes can be used to make novel bonds with alternative backbone structures October 2022 For Ryan Fellows, pursuing scientific breakthroughs is the journey October 2022 Northwestern Part of New Center for Multi-Scale Synthetic Biology Ocrtober 2022 Solving the Puzzle of Sustainable Energy August 2022 CSB Welcomes Ashty Karim, Director of Research July 2022 Artificial Ribosome Continues Advancing July 2022 Collaborative Research Shows Good Bacteria Can Be Protected in Fight Against Infections July 2022 Covid-19 Nasal Spray Could Transform Medicine Delivery, Treatment June 2022 Vacuna en aerosol contra COVID-19 busca revolucionar tratamiento de la enfermedad June 2022 Repurposing the Cell Engine: Northwestern Announces the Cell-Free Biomanufacturing Institute June 2022 Save the date: Mike Jewett presents at TEDxChicago June 2022 Closing Gaps to Find New Engergy Sources June 2022 Three partners, two problems, one bioenergy research article published May 2022 New study finds that intranasal proteins could protect against COVID-19 variants May 2022 Big updates on the Jewett Lab’s collaborative progress towards a Covid-19 nasal spray! April 2022 Article: Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals March 2022 The Living Revolution podcast features Mike Jewett March 2022 Reprogrammed bacterium turns carbon dioxide into chemicals on industrial scale March 2022 Scientists Engineered Bacteria to Eat Carbon Dioxide and Spit Out Clean Chemicals March 2022 The Federation of American Scientists weigh in on the Jewett Lab’s latest breakthrough February 2022 Engineered microbes put waste to good use — and help the climate February 2022 $10 billion industry could transform to carbon negative with nifty microbial trick February 2022 LanzaTech and Jewett Lab have found a way to make the production of important chemicals more climate-friendly February 2022 Microbes convert industrial waste gases into commodity chemicals February 2022 LanzaTech research ready for pilot project! February 2022 Engineered bacteria produce chemicals with negative carbon emissions February 2022 Review of technologies that repurpose carbon finds most aren’t Paris Agreement compatible February 2022 New research from the group in sustainable biomanufacturing published in Nature Biotechnology February 2022 Article: Engineered bacteria convert captured carbon dioxide into chemicals for fuels, fabric and cosmetics February 2022 Yejun Kim competes on Jeopardy! February 2022 Article: Targeting repetitive sequences for gene editing January 2022 Article: Resilience Acquires SwiftScale Biologics, a Leader in Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Technology December 2021 Article: Biology research, no cells required November 2021 Catch Up with former Jewett Lab member Sam Davidson! September 2021 Article: Pollution to products? Recycled carbon emissions are coming to consumer shelves. September 2021 How Northwestern Graduate Naomi Lisse is Helping Moderna Produce COVID-19 Vaccines September 2021 Article: Can you spot the fake receptor? The coronavirus can’t either. August 2021 Article: Sortase A strategy could see ribosomal products reach further across chemical space June 2021 Article: Increasing yield for portable vaccine production method May 2021 Article: Membranes unlock potential to increase cell-free vaccine production April 2021 Article: Membranes unlock potential to vastly increase cell-free vaccine production April 2021 Article: Vaccines: Just Add Water April 2021 Holly Ekas receives prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans April 2021 Article: ETOPiA Zoom Play Reflects Present-Day Research Realities April 2021 Article: Scientists Invented Freeze-Dried Vaccines That Can Be Rehydrated on Demand February 2021 Article: Cell-free biotech enables shelf-stable vaccines on demand February 2021 Article: Shelf-stable vaccines avoid waste, expand access February 2021 Article featured on cover of journal January 2021 Mike named NAI Fellow December 2020 Mike named AAAS Fellow November 2020 Podcast: Repurposing living systems to fight a pandemic October 2020 Article: A zest for synthetic biology September 2020 Article: Expanding the Palette of Monomers for Ribosome-mediated Polymerization August 2020 Article: Combating COVID-19 with Cell-Free Expression August 2020 Article: Tiny Insects Provide Inspiration for New Biomaterials August 2020 Article: National Science Foundation Grant Opens New Doors for Center for Synthetic Biology August 2020 Article: Going “Cell Free” Can Put a Rush on COVID-19 Antibody Therapies August 2020 Article: Northwestern scientists publish guiding principles for COVID-19 vaccine development July 2020 Article: The perfect collaboration to accelerate biological design June 2020 Article: Accelerating Biological Systems Design for Sustainable Biomanufacturing June 2020 Article: Sewage may help predict future virus outbreaks May 2020 Article: Propelling Synthetic Biology into the Future May 2020 Joon’s article on cover of Chemical Communications May 2020 Article: Northwestern Researchers Take Unique Approach, looking Outside of cells for a COVID-19 treatment May 2020 Article: Voices of Chemical Biology May 2020 Article: Synthetic Biology Comes of Age May 2020 Article: Northwestern Engineering synthetic biologists aim to create one-step diagnostic test for COVID-19 May 2020 Joon’s paper highlighted in Chemistry World! May 2020 Article: How Blavatnik Awards Honorees are answering the call to stop the spread of COVID-19 May 2020 Skylar featured in Profile by ChBE Department April 2020 Article: How Chicago Is Uniting For The Greater Good April 2020 Article: The race to make vaccines faster April 2020 Article: Body Armor Grown in a Lab? Why Not, Say Synthetic Biologists April 2020 Former Jewett lab member wins Sigma Xi/IIT Award for Excellence in University Research April 2020 Article: One-step diagnostic tool receives NSF RAPID grant April 2020 Mike and Swiftscale featured in Wired article on biotechnology and COVID-19 April 2020 Mike featured on the news for work on COVID-19 drug! April 2020 Article: Super-charging drug development for COVID-19 April 2020 Article: Cell-free biotechnology could help accelerate COVID-19 therapeutics April 2020 Mike chosen as 2020 AIMBE Fellow March 2020 Article: Developing an Antibody Therapeutic ASAP to Confront the Pandemic March 2020 Article: Developing Cell-Free Ribosomes in a Test Tube March 2020 Article: Jewett lab research on ribosome engineering published in Nature Communications February 2020 Mike named Walter P. Murphy Professor January 2020 Article: Simple Test Could Prevent Fluoride-related Disease December 2019 Article: Boost that metabolomic confidence December 2019 Article: Cell-free Synthetic Biology Comes of Age December 2019 Article: New Method Accelerates Development of Protein Therapeutics November 2019 Mike delivers 18th Annual Fredrickson Lecture November 2019 Article: Army project may lead to new class of high-performance materials November 2019 Article: Briefcase-sized labs could transform medicine November 2019 Article: New Design Rules for Ribosomal Monomers November 2019 Dr. Erik Carlson and Anne d’Aquino highlighted in Ribo-T interview and article October 2019 Article: Top synthetic biology news from academic labs in 2019 October 2019 Article: Biotech experts gather at the White House for ‘Summit on America’s Bioeconomy’ October 2019 Mike selected as 2019 Researcher to Know September 2019 Article: miniPCR bio™ launches BioBits™ system for synthetic biology and STEM education September 2019 Article: Improved Artificial Ribosome More Efficient September 2019 10th Anniversary of the Agilent Early Career Professor Award July 2019 Article: Scientists chart course toward the next-generation bioeconomy June 2019 Article: Teaching CRISPR in the Classroom: A New Tool for Teachers June 2019 Article: New Method for Engineering Metabolic Pathways June 2019 Mike chosen as finalist for Blavatnik National Award May 2019 Mike and Andrew Ellington present at the Cambridge SynBio Forum May 2019 BioBits featured in article on NSF website! May 2019 Article: Teaching CRISPR and antibiotic resistance to high school students May 2019 Article: Synthetic biology breaks out of the cell April 2019 Article: ACS Editors Reflect on the Impact of Women Mentors March 2019 Article: DNA’s Coding Power Doubled February 2019 Article: Synthetic Biology Basics, Bit by Bit December 2018 Article: From The Old Chemistry Set To New ‘BioBits,’ Cutting-Edge Kit To Teach Biology November 2018 Mike co-chair of Future Directions workshop and report November 2018 Article: Making biologics on demand November 2018 Video: The Air Force Center of Excellence for Advanced Bioprogrammable Nanomaterials at Northwestern November 2018 Mike recognized as one of “10 Biotechnology and Bioenterprise Professors to Know” October 2018 Article: How Sweet It Is: GlycoSCORES Speed Drug Development September 2018 Article: From the factory to the front lines: Combating superbugs and other threats through on-demand medicine September 2018 Article: From Waste to Fuel: Researchers to Develop Next-Generation Biofuels and Bioproducts September 2018 Inaugural Central US Synthetic Biology Workshop takes place at Northwestern September 2018 BioBits educational kits bring synthetic and molecular biology experiments into K-12 classrooms August 2018 Ashty receives award for best talk at the ACS Spring National Meeting July 2018 Mike receives Young Investigator Award July 2018 Jess’ paper on glycoprotein synthesis published in Nature Communications July 2018 Jewett lab alum Quentin Dudley using CFPS to express plant proteins June 2018 Article: New Biotech Technique Accelerates Protein Therapy Research May 2018 Lab receives MURI to design stimuli-responsive proteins April 2018 Lab wins DURIP Award! April 2018 Article about cell-free systems project funded by JGI March 2018 Mike discusses cell-free protein synthesis research March 2018 Anne and Andrea d’Aquino featured in Northwestern Now September 2017 Mike discusses Custom-Made Molecules August 2017 Anne wins Ryan Fellowship July 2017 Thinking Differently: Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology featured in news story June 2017 Making antibodies minus the cells May 2017 Mike joins Cell Systems Editorial Board April 2017 Mike receives the 2017 Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence Award April 2017 The Jewett Lab Marches for Science April 2017 The lab is funded by highly competitive Human Frontier Science Program award April 2017