News: Research

Isil Dillig works to improve the security and reliability of software systems and automatically generate programs from high-level specifications.

Jason McLellan and his team advance understanding of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) and human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), which can help them develop vaccines.

What if there were a way to make proteins, enzymes and reagents right in the lab, in small amounts, on demand?

Scientists have redesigned a key component of a widely used CRISPR-based gene-editing tool, called Cas9, to be thousands of times less likely to target the...

A new study shows that nitrogen-fixing trees could help forests remove more heat-trapping COS from the atmosphere than previously thought.

Scientists have found a new way to impair antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause human disease, including E. coli, K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa.

Chemists and physicists are making steady progress on developing new materials that may prove key for our future energy needs.

Stomata are critical to plant biology and scientists have found a key to how they get there.

Patterns of weight gain in pregnancy may offer clues to how children will grow.

Using cellphone mobility data and COVID-19 hospital admissions data, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have reliably forecast regional hospital demands for almost...