On a misty September night in the Smokies, a flashlight beam catches a slick ripple under a rock, and a salamander slips back into the dark. For decades, these Appalachian shape‑shifters have fooled even careful eyes, blending into a tapestry of spots, flecks, and shadows. Now, DNA is changing the game – rewriting maps, ...
A grand, unsettling question is quietly moving from science fiction into lab conversations: could we rewrite human DNA so viruses simply can’t take hold? The idea landed in my inbox after yet another season of respiratory bugs, and it felt both audacious and strangely inevitable. We’ve learned to design vaccines in weeks and read genomes ...
One of the biggest dangers to contemporary medicine is antibiotic resistance; superbugs are changing faster than we can create new medications. However, if we could monitor these bacterial changes in real time and forecast their next direction before they outmaneuver our treatments? Investigating the genetic battlefield between bacteria and antibiotics as it develops inside human ...
