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‘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