The Julius B. Lucks Lab for RNA Engineering @NorthwesternU @NUSynBio
Joined October 2016
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13 Jan 2025
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/s41589-0…
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Interested in the RNA multiverse? Check out my recent podcast with @IINanoNU!
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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/10.64898…
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14 Jul 2025
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/environ…
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14 Jul 2025
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.
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7 Jul 2025
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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:
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4 Jun 2025
Why is @NUsynbio so great - it's the people. Check out our latest staff profile of our incredible Director of Operations Yael Mayer!
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6 May 2025
Check out the latest @RNASociety spotlight of Lucks Lab Alumn Professor Angela Yu!
rnasociety.org/dr--angela-yu
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26 Apr 2025
Research cuts impact everyone. @NUSynBio trying to get the word out:
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17 Apr 2025
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-sasha-an…
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16 Apr 2025
Speak up! Thanks @LucksLab and @WBEZreset for talking about this.
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17 Apr 2025
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-sasha-an…
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11 Apr 2025
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.
11 Apr 2025
It brings me no pleasure to post today's coverage of the assault on science being wrought by the bonkers federal clowns. This @Suntimes story features damage to my husband's lab. If critical @DeptofDefense work isn't even spared... @LucksLab @NUSynBio
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4 Apr 2025
Congrats to @ChappellLab (a @NUSynBio alumni!) on their latest in @NatureBiotech :
nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
Amazing RNA engineering applied to track microbial ecosystems!
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29 Mar 2025
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!
27 Mar 2025
Professors Julius Lucks and James Rondinelli have been elected 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest general scientific society in the world.
Congrats, Julius and James!
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ALT Professors Julius Lucks and James Rondinelli have been elected 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest general scientific society in the world.
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19 Mar 2025
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/acs…
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3 Mar 2025
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.
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28 Feb 2025
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.
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ALT A product of multi-disciplinary Northwestern Engineering research, the cantilever-based test detects harmful chemicals in water at concentrations down to parts per billion.
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28 Feb 2025
Great collaboration between Gajendra Shekhawat of SPID/ NUANCE and Julius Lucks of Synthetic Biology. Remarkable to see unusual combo of biomolecular interactions anchored on microfabricated platform for water sensing! Just wow!!
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3 Mar 2025
A new joint initiative between @NUFeinbergMed and @NorthwesternEng aims to steer the development of new research “neighborhoods” on Northwestern’s Chicago campus, expanding on current research priorities, which include #syntheticbiology. bit.ly/3QH9HmH
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