African scribes have long imagined beyond the present moment, envisioning futures that transcend the immediate struggles of the day.As early as 1992, Ghanaian surrealist writer Kojo Laing imagined his ...

An MIT team used artificial intelligence to design novel antibiotics, two of which showed promise against MRSA and gonorrhea.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have created microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change shape and behavior in response to their surroundings, just like living ...

US researchers create microscopic DNA “flowers” that mimic life, folding and unfolding to adapt and deliver medicine.

A new mechanism explains how bacteria can drive treatment resistance in patients with oral and colorectal cancer.

Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that ...

“Our work is the first to directly test how chromosome structure affects bacterial growth, survival, and ability to cause ...

In both mouse and human models of wound healing, infection with S. aureus activated the bacterium’s accessory gene regulator (agr) quorum-sensing system, a molecular “switch” that controls bacterial ...

Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...