Tag: Biomechanics/Biophysics

Credit: Mark Witton Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly. They soared the skies for 160 million years--much longer ...

Credit: Photo by Wayne Boo, U.S. Geological Survey CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Biological structures sometimes have unique features that engineers would ...

UH engineer awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to pursue the questionCredit: University of Houston Pradeep Sharma, a mechanical engineer at the ...

UC Davis researchers develop an easy pre-clinical test of cardiac safetyCredit: Copyright UC Regents UC Davis Health researchers have developed ...

National Science Foundation awards compute time on world's most powerful academic supercomputer to 49 projectsCredit: Tiziana DiMatteo, Carnegie Mellon University ...

Biophysical chemist receives prestigious EU research funding for work on membraneless organelles that construct synthetic proteins in cellsCredit: ill./©: Christopher ...

Credit: University of Cambridge Researchers from Cambridge University and University of California San Diego have 3D printed coral-inspired structures that ...

Credit: (Picture: Ulrich Terpitz / University of Würzburg) Fungi play an important role for mankind. In the soil, they decompose ...

Evaluating embryos by detecting secreted proteins using microfluidic droplets and multicolor fluorescenceCredit: Zeng Yong WASHINGTON, April 7, 2020 -- Infertility ...

Using a substrain of E. coli MG 1655 and nanoscale red blood cell membranes, researchers created tiny biohybrid swimmers that ...

Credit: Kanazawa University One aspect of bacterial activity is the production of so-called extracellular membrane vesicles (MVs): biological 'packages' wrapped ...

Credit: Giovanni Maglia, University of Groningen University of Groningen scientists observed the characteristics of a single enzyme inside a nanopore. ...

The movements of cell muscles in the form of tiny filaments of proteins have been visualised at unprecedented detail by ...

Phytochrome foci have different behaviors at different temperatures and types of lightCredit: Stan Lim/UC Riverside A protein called phytochrome B, ...

Credit: K. Kovalev et. al. Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working with Spanish, French, and German ...

Credit: R. Alert et al. Turbulent flows are chaotic yet feature universal statistical properties.Over the recent years, seemingly turbulent flows ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Cells will ramp up gene expression in response to physical forces ...

Nanostructured polymer foil appears white without environmentally hazardous titanium dioxide -- Beetle's chitin scales used as a modelCredit: Julia Syurik, ...

Radio-frequency device maps electric currents in solutions that mimic the heart with enough resolutions to study the subtle aberrations related ...

The ERC has awarded one of its prestigious Advanced Grants to the leader of the Carbon Bionanotechnology group and Ikerbasque ...