Tag: Biomechanics/Biophysics

Engineers impressed by the functional great diversity of hairs on spider legsCredit: B Poerschke, SN Gorb and F Schaber Just ...

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

Credit: Thomas Jansen, University of Groningen Light-driven molecular motors have been around for over twenty years. These motors typically take ...

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

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Colloids--mixtures of particles made from one substance, dispersed ...

Initial demonstration builds drug delivery system that protects the gut microbiome from antibioticsCredit: Zhuojun Dai DURHAM, N.C. - Biomedical engineers ...

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

Credit: Photo courtesy Hawiger lab A cell-penetrating peptide developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center can prevent, in an ...

Credit: Simeon Castle A defining characteristic of all life is its ability to evolve. However, the fact that biologically engineered ...

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

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 slowlyCredit: Photo: Leipzig University They recently published their findings in the renowned journal ...

Trilogy of papers provide insight into a critical step in how some viruses reproduceCredit: Joshua Pajak, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. ...

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

Credit: POSTECH Mussels survive by sticking to rocks in the fierce waves or tides underwater. Materials mimicking this underwater adhesion ...

Researchers explore proton transport in thin film polymers containing various concentrations of an organic acid group found in biomaterialsCredit: Yuki ...

Credit: Dr Yu Xinge's team By putting a piece of soft, strain-sensing sheet on the skin may be able to ...

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 ...