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In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge.

The technique, which relies on short polymers called oligourethanes, encodes information with greater density than DNA-based approaches

​Carlos Baiz, Caroline Morley, Andrew Potter and Urbain Weyemi are among the 128 scholars from across the country selected by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to receive the 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships.

A team of University of Texas at Austin researchers led by chemistry assistant professor Zachariah Page demonstrated a fast and precise way to 3D print using visible light.

The texaphyrin molecule is designed to be more easily absorbed by cancerous cells than healthy human cells, reducing the drug’s side effects.

So what will the next 50 years bring? Absent a crystal ball, your best bet would be to ask a scientist.