Research Articles
The Shape-Shifters of Medicine: How Nature's Bungee Cord is Revolutionizing Biotechnology
Discover how Elastin-like Recombinamers (ELRs) are transforming medicine with their programmable, smart material properties for targeted drug delivery and tissue engineering.
The Bubble That Thinks: How Scientists are Creating Artificial Cells with Smart Walls
Discover how scientists are creating artificial cells with pH-switchable walls that could revolutionize drug delivery and synthetic biology.
Harnessing Nature's Genius: How a Sugarcane Gene Could Revolutionize Crop Survival
Discover how the SodERF3 gene from sugarcane is engineering drought and salt tolerance in plants, offering solutions for climate-resilient agriculture.
Cracking the Genetic Code: How Scientists Are Editing Legumes to Boost Global Food Security
Explore how targeted mutagenesis and CRISPR technology are revolutionizing legume research to address global food security challenges through genetic editing.
Life on the Edge: How Satellite Maps Are Guiding the Search for Microbial Life in Earth's Driest Desert
Discover how scientists use satellite-to-rover habitat mapping to find microbial life in Chile's Atacama Desert and what this means for Mars exploration.
From Caterpillar Catastrophe to Biotech Powerhouse: The Unlikely Rise of the Baculovirus
Explore how the baculovirus-insect cell expression system evolved from a specialized lab tool to a mainstream biotechnology platform revolutionizing vaccine production.
Green Factories: How a Pond Scum is Revolutionizing Medicine
Discover how Spirulina, the blue-green algae, is being engineered to produce life-saving protein therapeutics in a sustainable, cost-effective way.
Bacterial Factories: How Sugar-Coated Proteins Could Revolutionize Medicine
Discover how glyco-engineering in E. coli is creating breakthrough vaccines against bacterial infections through sugar-protein hybrids
Molecular Misdirection: Designing a Decoy to Outsmart a Rogue Immune Receptor
Explore how scientists use structure-based rational design to create TLR4 decoy receptors that can prevent dangerous inflammatory responses in conditions like sepsis.
Green Factories: How Plants Are Revolutionizing Medicine
Discover how plant-made pharmaceuticals are transforming drug production with safer, more affordable medicines grown in fields and bioreactors.