GETTING READY FOR THE POST-ANTIBIOTIC AGE. “In the military’s latest round of small business solicitations, Darpa is making a long-shot request for an all-out replacement to antibiotics, the decades-old standard for killing or injuring bacteria to demolish a disease. In its place: the emerging field of nanomedicine would be used to fight bacterial threats. The agency’s ‘Rapidly Adaptable Nanotherapeutics’ is after a versatile ‘platform capable of rapidly synthesizing therapeutic nanoparticles’ to target unknown, evolving and even genetically engineered bioweapons.” Faster, please.