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Reprogramming biosynthetic assembly lines can extend biosynthesis beyond the chemical space explored by nature. However, this remains difficult because assembly-line function depends on coordinated in...

By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University

Biology is often seen as an experimental science, with theory serving to generalize patterns from empirical data. But history reveals that theory plays a more generative role in discovery itself.

by Karen G. Lloyd — The story behind some extremely long-lived microbial cells.

In this Perspective, Haubrock et al. argue that today’s scientific structures constrain creativity and that strategic conformity is a rational response. They discuss how this holds back early-career researchers from reaching their full potential as scientists.

Some thoughts on how to make a crucial decision.

An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that...

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

It was one of the most important aspects of her art.

The T7 bacteriophage deactivates bacterial defence systems through T7K phosphorylation of nearly all host and phage proteins during infection.

I revisit, breakdown and explain my own essay to show you what works (and what doesn't).

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Why good performance on one set of goals can lead to poor performance on another

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We demonstrate that in a porcine full-thickness thermal injury wound model, a Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant deficient in biofilm formation undergoes adaptive evolution by acquiring mutations that alter the outer membrane, either type IV pili (T4P) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) mutations, that restores the deficient biofilm phenotype. We also observe a striking degree of mutational parallelism, at both the biosynthetic pathway and gene level, indicating the strong selective pressures experienced by these pathways during chronic wound infection.

There’s a sentence that still sounds slightly radical in much of America, even though millions of people elsewhere in the...