Tag: Biomechanics/Biophysics

Engineers impressed by the functional great diversity of hairs on spider legs Just how do spiders walk straight up -- ...

CUR award recognizes Lehigh bioengineering and materials science and engineering assistant professor for commitment to undergraduate-student research, scholarship, and experiential ...

Light-driven molecular motors have been around for over twenty years. These motors typically take microseconds to nanoseconds for one revolution. ...

Researchers at Osaka University develop a new highly sensitive test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that utilizes a fusion of artificial ...

Tokyo, Japan - Colloids--mixtures of particles made from one substance, dispersed in another substance--crop up in numerous areas of everyday ...

Initial demonstration builds drug delivery system that protects the gut microbiome from antibiotics DURHAM, N.C. - Biomedical engineers at Duke ...

Researchers at Staffordshire University have developed a new low-cost method to help prevent life-threatening foot ulcers in diabetic patients Millions ...

A cell-penetrating peptide developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center can prevent, in an animal model, the often-fatal septic ...

A defining characteristic of all life is its ability to evolve. However, the fact that biologically engineered systems will evolve ...

Ever since the world's first ever microscope was invented in 1590 by Hans and Zacharias Janssen --a Dutch father and ...

New structure shows how virus envelope protein hijacks cell-junction protein and promotes viral spread; findings could speed the design of ...

Heavy water makes biological clocks tick more slowly They recently published their findings in the renowned journal "Advanced Materials". Cells ...

Trilogy of papers provide insight into a critical step in how some viruses reproduce DURHAM, N.C. - A group of ...

These mind-bendingly complex crystals called the single gyroid, found in blue-winged leafbirds, have the potential to make fiber optics, solar ...

Mussels survive by sticking to rocks in the fierce waves or tides underwater. Materials mimicking this underwater adhesion are widely ...

Researchers explore proton transport in thin film polymers containing various concentrations of an organic acid group found in biomaterials Ishikawa, ...

By putting a piece of soft, strain-sensing sheet on the skin may be able to detect skin disorders non-invasively and ...

Credit: © 2021 KAUST Exploiting the unusual metal-reducing ability of the iron-breathing bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens, KAUST researchers have demonstrated a ...

Credit: POSTECH Alzheimer's disease - also called dementia - where memory and cognitive functions gradually decline due to deformation and ...

Credit: Visualisations: ETH Zurich / Viktor Koen Tendons are what connect muscles to bones. They are relatively thin but have ...