Keep up to date with the latest news related to Stemloop, uSense™ for Lead, and our partner industries of interest.
August 12, 2023
Forbes: The National Science Foundation is backing a pilot study by Northwestern University to develop and distribute water quality testing kits to Chicago-area residents. Other big cities could be next.
The foundation awarded a $3 million grant to the university. Later this year, 350 households will receive handheld, easy-to-use test kits to assess their home water quality. The tests will be available first for lead, and later for copper and PFAS.
January 2023
TedxChicago: Michael Jewett is a bioengineer who wonders if we can create equitable and distributed biotechnologies for the good. In this thought-provoking and insightful talk, he lays out a vision to re-think how biotechnologies are created and shared, made possible by biology without cells. Can just-add-water biotechnology turn us all into biomakers? Listen and learn how engineered biological systems are opening access to medicines, diagnostics, and more.
December, 2022
LinkedIn: Thank you U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) for hosting Scientific Cofounder Julius Lucks, CEO Khalid K. Alam, Ph.D., and Professor Sera Young! We spent the afternoon discussing lead in drinking water, a crucial issue impacting Americans, and how our technology can enable the scale to test every tap in America for lead in drinking water. The Senator even got to see our µSense™ for Lead biosensor in action!
October 24, 2022
Chicago Inno: Stemloop hopes to help solve a problem plaguing Chicago and other American cities: unsafe drinking water.
The Chicago-based biosensor company recently got backing from TitletownTech, a venture capital firm formed out of a partnership between the Green Bay Packers and Microsoft, to help launch its first product, which is a home test to detect lead in drinking water.
October 10, 2022
Press Release: Stemloop, Inc., a seed-stage, venture-backed company, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant provides $1.73 million in funding over a two-year period. The new funding complements a previous SBIR Phase I award received by Stemloop and brings the total funding from NIEHS to over $2 million.
April 5, 2022
Forbes: In America, dangerous drinking water is linked to a place called Flint.
From 2014 to 2019, this small city in Michigan suffered one of the nation’s worst public health crises. Thousands of its residents bathed in, gargled and drank tap water that had been contaminated with lead. It is unknown how many children will suffer irreparable harm as a result.
Stemloop News
Keep up to date with the latest news related to Stemloop, uSense™ for Lead, and our partner industries of interest.
August 12, 2023
The National Science Foundation is backing a pilot study by Northwestern University to develop and distribute water quality testing kits to Chicago-area residents. Other big cities could be next.
The foundation awarded a $3 million grant to the university. Later this year, 350 households will receive handheld, easy-to-use test kits to assess their home water quality. The tests will be available first for lead, and later for copper and PFAS.
January 2023
Michael Jewett is a bioengineer who wonders if we can create equitable and distributed biotechnologies for the good. In this thought-provoking and insightful talk, he lays out a vision to re-think how biotechnologies are created and shared, made possible by biology without cells. Can just-add-water biotechnology turn us all into biomakers? Listen and learn how engineered biological systems are opening access to medicines, diagnostics, and more.
December, 2022
Thank you U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) for hosting Scientific Cofounder Julius Lucks, CEO Khalid K. Alam, Ph.D., and Professor Sera Young! We spent the afternoon discussing lead in drinking water, a crucial issue impacting Americans, and how our technology can enable the scale to test every tap in America for lead in drinking water. The Senator even got to see our µSense™ for Lead biosensor in action!
August 12, 2023
Stemloop hopes to help solve a problem plaguing Chicago and other American cities: unsafe drinking water.
The Chicago-based biosensor company recently got backing from TitletownTech, a venture capital firm formed out of a partnership between the Green Bay Packers and Microsoft, to help launch its first product, which is a home test to detect lead in drinking water.
October 24, 2023
Stemloop, Inc., a seed-stage, venture-backed company, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant provides $1.73 million in funding over a two-year period. The new funding complements a previous SBIR Phase I award received by Stemloop and brings the total funding from NIEHS to over $2 million.
April 5, 2022
In America, dangerous drinking water is linked to a place called Flint.
From 2014 to 2019, this small city in Michigan suffered one of the nation’s worst public health crises. Thousands of its residents bathed in, gargled and drank tap water that had been contaminated with lead. It is unknown how many children will suffer irreparable harm as a result.
Publications
Read up on the latest technical publications out of Team Stemloop, as well as from our technical partner affiliates.
August 3, 2023
Detection of chemicals and molecules using cell-free biosensor lateral flow assays. This application claims the benefit of and priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/304,257, filed on Jan. 28, 2023, the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein its entirety.
February 27, 2022
Cell-free biosensors are powerful platforms for monitoring human and environmental health. Here, we expand their capabilities by interfacing them with toehold-mediated strand displacement circuits, a dynamic DNA nanotechnology that enables molecular computation through programmable interactions between nucleic acid strands. We develop design rules for interfacing a small molecule sensing platform called ROSALIND with toehold-mediated strand displacement to construct hybrid RNA–DNA circuits that allow fine-tuning of reaction kinetics.
July 6, 2020
Lack of access to safe drinking water is a global problem, and methods to reliably and easily detect contaminants could be transformative. We report the development of a cell-free in vitro transcription system that uses RNA Output Sensors Activated by Ligand Induction (ROSALIND) to detect contaminants in water. A combination of highly processive RNA polymerases, allosteric protein transcription factors and synthetic DNA transcription templates regulates the synthesis of a fluorescence-activating RNA aptamer.
April 3, 2020
Tracking progress towards Target 6.1 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, “achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all”, necessitates the development of simple, inexpensive tools to monitor water quality.
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