Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the world’s deadliest single-agent caused infection, responsible for 1.23 million deaths in 2024, according to the World Health Organization. The bacterium’s unique outer cell membrane is notoriously hard to penetrate, making few drugs, including antibiotics, effective in treating the disease.  However, a research team led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed a pair of techniques that can vastly speed up the search for better tuberculosis drugs.

With a $4M grant from the National Institutes of Health, a University of Houston pioneer in autoimmune research is launching a 10-year study set to target the very heart of autoimmune disease – examining what causes the body to attack itself and identifying biological pathways that could become targets for new treatments. 

Researchers have found an ingenious way to make soft robots and wearable technology more than three times more powerful by harnessing the surface tension of a tiny liquid metal droplet smaller than a rain droplet.

A review paper by scientists at Capital Medical University provided a comprehensive overview of optoelectronic tweezers used in single-cell research.

The review paper, published on Jun 26, 2026 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems.

Researchers have developed an AI model that predicts job salaries with high accuracy while identifying which skill combinations most significantly impact compensation. Published on 15 May 2026 in Frontiers of Computer Science (co-published by Higher Education Press and Springer Nature), the study addresses a critical challenge in understanding how professional skills interact to determine earnings.

Building on its workforce-development efforts and partnerships with semiconductor manufacturers and community colleges, UT Dallas has been selected to lead key initiatives within the new National Network for Microelectronics Education (NNME) South Regional Node.

SAN ANTONIO — July 6, 2026 — A new Southwest Research Institute-led study compared eight AI-generated lunar crater catalogs, discovering that many of their published performance metrics drop sharply when the databases are evaluated using the same scientific standards humans are held to. Crater catalogs provide a comprehensive record of impact craters on planetary surfaces. They log the precise location, dimensions and physical characteristics of impact structures to help scientists understand the geological history of the solar system and its components.

In data center networks, the growth rate of switch buffer size is much smaller than that of network bandwidth capacity. This results in frequent network congestion, which requires congestion control.