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
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New Course UNC Chapel Hill – Materials Design for Biomedicine
New for UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2025 – Materials Design for Biomedicine (APPL 467 – 3 Credits), a course lead by Professor Ronit Freeman that will equip you in learning how to engineer biomaterials and nanotechnologies!
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
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
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
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
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
Dr. Freeman and Other Faculty Offer Advice to Spring Grads
Faculty offer parting advice for spring graduates UNC Arts + Sciences – Faculty give a few words of encouragement to students Read on the UNC
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
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
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
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
Interview with the Women of the Freeman Lab
Breaking Barriers in Science: An Interview with the Women of the Freeman Lab Breaking Barriers in Science: An Interview with the Women of the Freeman
Article: A Twist on Traditional Treatment
Imagine a future where the insidious advance of Alzheimer’s could be halted, or even reversed, not by a miraculous new drug, but by a groundbreaking
Targeted therapy treatments – with a twist!
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have developed a therapeutic approach that harnesses helical amyloid fibers designed to untwist and release drugs in response to body temperature, according
All That Glitters – Sensors From the Lab to Field
Translating sensors from the lab benchtop to a readily available point-of-need setting is desirable for many fields, including medicine, agriculture, and industry. However, this transition
New Paper – How Omicron Finds the Sweet Spot
New paper shows omicron relies more on sugars for infection Omicron and its sublineages remain a major public health concern owing to their high infectivity
Welcome to Kenan Labs, Collaboratory!
North Carolina Collaboratory opens offices On March 22, campus leaders gathered to cut the ribbon on the Collaboratory’s new dedicated space on campus in the
Freeman Recognized as a Rising Star in Chemistry
Ronit Freeman Earns 2023 Cottrell Scholar Award Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America’s first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named 25 early career scholars
Kameryn Hinton, Freeman Lab Graduate Student, A Leader Both In and Out of the Lab
Student leaders in applied physical sciences help build graduate student community Since its launch as an official student organization in the fall of 2022, the