Author: Justin

How to Signal a Cell to Move Along a Surface

How to Signal a Cell to Move Along a Surface What gets you moving?   And then how do you make your move? In all walks of life, we find organisms moving across various surfaces in different ways for different reasons. A spider may decide to walk up a wall. Its motivation, its stimulation to… Continue reading How to Signal a Cell to Move Along a Surface

GlycoGrip – Connecting the Dots to Disease Detection

GlycoGrip – A Straight Line to Disease Detection Stopping viral disease spread relies on accurate, cost efficient and robust community detection. Multiplexed tools that are responsive to viral mutations remove the need for iterative devices, and equip public health practitioners with test-to-treat tools that detect infection at early stages of disease, and stop an outbreak before it begins.   … Continue reading GlycoGrip – Connecting the Dots to Disease Detection

Creativity Hubs Award Funds New Implant Device To Revolutionize Chronic Disease Management

CREATIVITY HUBS AWARD FAST-TRACKS DEVELOPMENT OF IMPLANTABLE TECHNOLOGIES THAT COULD DISRUPT HEALTHCARE IN NORTH CAROLINA, NATIONWIDE, AND GLOBALLY     A new implantable device termed Autonomous Living Therapies for Extended Results (ALTER) could change the way chronic diseases are managed by offering a promising solution to one of the biggest challenges in healthcare: poor medication… Continue reading Creativity Hubs Award Funds New Implant Device To Revolutionize Chronic Disease Management

Throwback – Revisiting Chemically Reversible Hydrogels

Revisiting Ronit’s Reversible Game-Changing Hydrogel Research Imagine you are playing softball with some friends at a neighborhood field. You’re up to bat, you swing and connect and everyone cheers you on for your homerun. But the ball has landed beyond the outfield, just behind another fence. You are able to put your hand through the… Continue reading Throwback – Revisiting Chemically Reversible Hydrogels

Lab’s Research Makes Cover of Nature Chemistry

Freeman Lab Synthetic Cell Research Makes Cover of Nature Chemistry’s August Issue Chapel Hill, NC The August 2024 issue of Nature Chemistry features a cover image representing the research led by Margaret Daly, Kengo Nishi, and Ronit Freeman. The research spans multiple years in developing peptide -based filaments with DNA crosslinkers that forms networks and… Continue reading Lab’s Research Makes Cover of Nature Chemistry

AIChE Touts Potential of Lab’s Artificial Cells

AIChE Touts Potential of Lab’s Artificial Cells Chapel Hill, NC The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) take intrigue with the Freeman Lab’s ‘new method of building artificial cells from the ground up.’   These artificial cells have the ability to respond to external triggers such as heat, making them potential building blocks for sensors… Continue reading AIChE Touts Potential of Lab’s Artificial Cells

UNC Researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells

UNC-Chapel Hill researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells Chapel Hill, NC Carleigh Gabryel In a new study published in Nature Chemistry, Carolina researcher Ronit Freeman and her colleagues describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins — essential building blocks of life — to create cells that look and act like cells from the… Continue reading UNC Researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells

Dr. Freeman to Speak at Annual Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting

Dr. Freeman to Speak at Annual Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting – September 23, 2024 Raleigh, NC Cytoskeleton is the protein network that gives cells their shape and it’s a feature of cells that is so integral that a yearly event was created here in the Triangle to solely focus on all things cytoskeleton.    Aptly titled… Continue reading Dr. Freeman to Speak at Annual Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting

ABC11 Visits Freeman Lab to Explore Potential Alzheimer’s C

ABC11 Visits Freeman Lab to Explore Potential Alzheimer’s Cure ABC11’s Michael Perchick visited the Freeman Lab to sit down with Professor Ronit Freeman to learn about the new discovery in a way to potentially reverse the twist direction of amyloid plaques in the brain which are instrumental in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.   … Continue reading ABC11 Visits Freeman Lab to Explore Potential Alzheimer’s C

WRAL Visits Freeman Lab to Explore Potential Alzheimer’s Cure

WRAL Visits Freeman Lab to Explore Potential Alzheimer’s Cure WRAL’s Grace Hayba visited the Freeman Lab to sit down with Professor Ronit Freeman to learn about the new discovery in a way to potentially reverse the twist direction of amyloid plaques in the brain which are instrumental in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.   … Continue reading WRAL Visits Freeman Lab to Explore Potential Alzheimer’s Cure