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Can AI Understand Life?

The question sounds almost philosophical, the kind posed in seminar rooms or late-night conversations rather than in the measured language of molecular biology. Yet in 2026, it sits squarely at the intersection of computational science and the life sciences, demanding…

Research & Scientific Discoveries

How Antibiotic Resistance is Evolving

Antibiotic resistance stands as one of the most formidable and accelerating challenges in modern medicine and public health. What began as a predictable biological consequence of introducing antimicrobial agents into clinical practice has, over the course of several decades, matured…

Molecular & Cellular Biology

The Biology of Aging: Chemistry Behind Growing Old

Aging is among the most universal of all biological phenomena, yet it remains one of the least completely understood. Every organism equipped with a soma, from the microscopic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to the long-lived bowhead whale, undergoes progressive physiological deterioration…

Molecular & Cellular Biology

What Happens Inside a Cell Every Second

The living cell is, by any reasonable measure, the most sophisticated chemical system known to science. Packed into a volume that may span as little as 10 micrometers (um) across, a typical mammalian cell executes thousands of overlapping biochemical programmes…

Biotechnology & Innovation

CRISPR: Editing Life

Few developments in the history of molecular biology have arrived with the disruptive force of CRISPR-Cas9. What began as a peculiar observation in the immune memory of bacteria has, in roughly a decade, been engineered into a molecular tool capable…