The Lucks Lab

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! 🌟 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Interested in the RNA multiverse? Check out my recent podcast with @IINanoNU! open.spotify.com/episode/2hhUDd…

Pre-print alert - measuring RNA folding energies using high throughput sequencing. A new framework for uncovering principles of RNA folding and design. Doors are opening! biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

wise-dx.org for more about our technology, our field trial of at-home lead tests, and how you can get involved and get tested.

Chicago has a big problem with lead in drinking water and we are helping to solve it with at-home biosensor tests. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/20…

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:

Why is @NUsynbio so great - it's the people. Check out our latest staff profile of our incredible Director of Operations Yael Mayer! syntheticbiology.northwestern.edu/csb-staff-prof…

Check out the latest @RNASociety spotlight of Lucks Lab Alumn Professor Angela Yu! rnasociety.org/dr--angela-yu

Research cuts impact everyone. @NUSynBio trying to get the word out: syntheticbiology.northwestern.edu/csb-leaders-vo…

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. wbez.org/reset-with-sas…

Speak up! Thanks @LucksLab and @WBEZreset for talking about this. wbez.org/reset-with-sas…

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/reset-with-sas…

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.

Congrats to @ChappellLab (a @NUSynBio alumni!) on their latest in @NatureBiotech : nature.com/articles/s4158… Amazing RNA engineering applied to track microbial ecosystems!

@NUSynBio @NUSynBio is the best place to be - amazing supportive colleagues doing the best work for people and planet. Thank you for all the support!

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!

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! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

@AnibalArce12 featured as an inaugural @NUSynBio postdoctoral fellow! syntheticbiology.northwestern.edu/csb-launches-i…

See the paper in @acsnano ! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

New water tech out of the lab covered by @SynBioBeta: synbiobeta.com/read/how-tiny-… Synbio+nanotech mashup detecting lead down to 1ppb in minutes.

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. spr.ly/6018LgNuk