Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...

You look rough,” says a colleague. “You look tired,” says my mother. “You look old,” says the parent of a child I barely know ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered that two fundamental modes of cellular deformation, stretching and bending, can be independently controlled using different molecular building ...

What if the mechanical properties of a cell could be programmed like the components of a machine? Researchers at the ...

A team of engineers at Rice University and Kyung Hee University has developed a soft, shape-shifting mechanical surface that ...

We’re just beginning to decode this faint optical “signature of life” and what it could reveal about health, disease, and the ...