In the relentless quest to tackle global challenges related to energy and sustainability, the pace of discovering advanced functional materials has become a critical bottleneck. Scientific progress in this realm hinges upon the ability to efficiently explore vast and complex parameter spaces inherent to materials synthesis. Despite the remarkable emergence of self-driving laboratories and automated … Read more

Exploration of global venoms for antimicrobial discovery. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60051-6 Snake, scorpion, and spider venom are most frequently associated with poisonous bites, but with the help of artificial intelligence, they might be able to help fight antibiotic resistance, which contributes to more than one million deaths worldwide each year. In a study … Read more

Baxdrostat, which AstraZeneca acquired in a 2023 buyout of CinCor Pharma, could become a new treatment for people whose hypertension is either uncontrolled by or resistant to existing medicines.

A groundbreaking study published in Nature in 2025 unveils how specific gut microbiota can dramatically influence the maturation of dendritic cells, thereby orchestrating robust antitumour immunity. Researchers have pinpointed a novel bacterial strain, YB328, which outperforms conventional strains like Parabacteroides vulgatus in activating and reprogramming bone-marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs), pivotal players in immune surveillance and … Read more

Credit: Nature Chemical Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01942-z Self-labeling protein tags such as SNAP-tag offer the opportunity to attach bright and photostable synthetic fluorophores to proteins of interest for later analysis, and are widely used in biochemistry. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have engineered a much improved version named SNAP-tag2 … Read more

Positive late-stage study results position the company to file for clearance of what could be the first narcolepsy drug that targets orexin proteins. 

In the wake of successful tuberculosis (TB) treatment, a perplexing clinical challenge emerges: a subset of patients experience relentless and progressive lung damage that severely impairs respiratory function. Despite globally concerted efforts to combat Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, the scars it leaves behind have long been shrouded in mystery, hampering effective strategies to repair or reverse … Read more

Graphical abstract Credit: Cell (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.06.024 A new study published in Cell has unveiled a first-of-a-kind optogenetic screening platform, developed by scientists at Integrated Biosciences, a biotechnology company integrating optogenetics, chemistry and AI to discover small molecule therapeutics for age-related diseases. The new publication demonstrates the platform’s capabilities by applying it to the integrated … Read more

In an illuminating breakthrough in plant biology, researchers have unveiled a sophisticated wound healing mechanism in mature leaves of Arabidopsis that challenges previous understandings of how plants respond to physical damage. While the plant epidermis is already known to serve as a vital protective interface against environmental stressors, the intricate processes by which breaches to … Read more

In the rapidly evolving landscape of sustainable energy technologies, direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) have emerged as promising candidates for portable and stationary power generation. These electrochemical devices convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy using methanol as a fuel, gaining attention for their high energy density, ease of fuel storage, and relatively low operating … Read more