From startups to giants in pharma and tools, the use of spatial biology is growing in importance in drug discovery. LatchBio, a four-year-old San Francisco builder of software and data infrastructure ...

Mary Brunkow, senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), left, and Fred Ramsdell, co-founder and chair of Sonoma Biotherapeutic’s scientific advisory board, won the 2025 Nobel ...

Advances in AI are opening extraordinary frontiers in biology. AI-assisted protein engineering holds the promise of new medicines, materials, and breakthroughs in scientific understandings. Yet these ...

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls. A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to discover a "zero day" vulnerability in the biosecurity systems used ...

Researchers have revealed how polymyxins, crucial last-resort antibiotics, break down bacterial armor by forcing cells to overproduce and shed it. Astonishingly, the drugs only kill bacteria when they ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) at the University of Colorado Anschutz discovered important ...

Recent studies suggest that the steady rise in life expectancy observed over the past 200 years has now stagnated. Data indicate that a limit has been reached, and that medical and health care ...

The channels in Microsoft’s new microfluidics design match the heat signatures of chips, resembling the veins of a plant. (Microsoft Photo) REDMOND, Wash. — About 5 minutes before each hour, and 5 ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...

Iberian harvester ant queens have a unique superpower: They can lay eggs that hatch into an entirely different species. This discovery, described in a new paper published September 3 in the journal ...

Labroots invites you to the 11th Annual Microbiology Virtual Event Series 2025, taking place on September 3rd, 2025! This event will explore the latest developments in microbiology and immunology, ...

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood. A black oak in the Yale-Myers Forest of northern ...