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New Era at UT Austin Begins for Famous Long-Term Evolution Experiment
After 34 years and 75,000 generations of bacterial evolution, the Long-Term Evolution Experiment moved to the University of Texas at Austin in summer 2022.
Scientists Hijack Bacteria To Ease Drug Manufacturing
Scientists have created biosensors from bacteria that will help speed up analysis of drug manufacturing, harnessing microbes to help detect therapeutic molecules.
New Vaccine Advances Could Help Against More Viral Illnesses
Some of the same researchers at The University of Texas at Austin who created a key to all coronavirus vaccines used in the U.S. have...
Dried Bacteria Could Revolutionize Testing, Laboratory Science
When you think of the type of labs driving biomedical discoveries, you may envision beakers and test tubes filled with a rainbow of chemicals, where...
Ancient Cousins, New AI Could Reveal Clues About Causes of Birth Defects
Editor's note: Each December, the journal Science identifies one scientific discovery as its "Breakthrough of the Year." For 2021, this recognition went to AlphaFold and RoseTTA-fold—artificial intelligence...
