With collaborators including Guillermo Ameer, Joshua Leonard and Shana O. Kelly, Northwestern professor Jonathan Rivnay and his team have designed biohybrid implantable devices that use engineered cel...

Center for Synthetic Biology faculty member Sera Young, Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern, was featured in the Walder Foundation’s March 2026 newsletter. The Foundation’s President & CEO, Eliz...

This pop-up exhibit highlights women shaping the future of energy. Open through March 31, 2026.

On February 3, 2026, Microbiologist and retired NASA astronaut Kate Rubins visited Northwestern University to give a special seminar on conducting biology in space, from experimental design in microgr...

When the Nanoscape podcast, produced by the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, set out to explore how nanotechnology is shaping the future, it invited Julius Lucks,...

Northwestern Engineering researchers develop technologies to protect, manage, and recover resources from our water supply.

What began in the aftermath of the pandemic as an effort to foster deeper connections among graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and administrators in Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB...

We recently spoke with Brianna Bullock, the Center for Synthetic Biology’s (CSB) Business Administrator, about her path to Northwestern, her day-to-day work, and her interests in East Asian culture, l...

The Trump administration's funding cuts to Northwestern University's research programs have caused significant damage, with 80% of the school's research funding cut, and the loss of 790 million dollar...