Hannah Dailey receives NSF CAREER award for virtual mechanical test for bone healing
Lehigh University MechE professor's approach holds promise for avoiding nonunions, which carry risks of depression, opioid abuse; award also supports ...
Tag: Biomechanics/Biophysics
SNIPRs take aim at disease-related mutations
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University A typo appearing in the draft of a novel is no great ...
Research project aims to make experiments on red blood cells more realistic
Credit: Saarland University/Thorsten Mohr Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are the pack animals of the human circulatory system. They transport oxygen ...
Bacteria loop-the-loop
Research team with participation from the University of Göttingen analyses flagellar locomotionCredit: Sarah Mohammadinejed, University of Göttingen The magnetotactic bacterium ...
How enzymes build sugar trees
Credit: Joël Bloch / ETH Zurich Many of the membrane proteins in eukaryotic cells are decorated with complex sugar trees ...
New study allows brain and artificial neurons to link up over the web
Credit: University of Southampton Research on novel nanoelectronics devices led by the University of Southampton enabled brain neurons and artificial ...
These feet were made for walking
A little-studied human foot arch is important for walking and running, finds new studyCredit: OIST Many of us take our ...
Powerful mantis shrimp pull punches in air for self-preservation
Credit: Kate Feller Mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) don't take kindly to captivity. 'They have a general baseline of being angry', ...
Discovery of bacterial ancestor yields new insight on calcium channels
A new ion channel identified in bacteria fills a missing link in the evolutionary history of ion channels in mammalsCredit: ...
Solar storms could scramble whales’ navigational sense
Gray whales 4.3 times more likely to strand during a cosmic burst of radio staticCredit: Nicholas Metheny NOAA DURHAM, N.C. ...
Transport protein efficiently uses three independent lifts to shuttle the goods
Scheme of the transport cycle of glutamate transporters. Four states enclosed in dashed blocks represent structures observed in this work. ...
CPRIT grant draws cell imaging specialist to Rice
Anna-Karin Gustavsson brings expertise in single-molecule imaging to bear on cancer researchCredit: Courtesy of Anna-Karin Gustavsson HOUSTON - (Feb. 19, ...
Montana State engineering researcher wins NSF CAREER award
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- In the engineer's world, vibration is usually a bad thing. It means ...
Researchers discover new mechanism for the coexistence of species
Credit: AMOLF Researchers from AMOLF (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and Harvard University (USA) show how the ability of organisms to move ...
New tool to study how neuronal networks recover their function after neuron loss
Credit: J. Soriano/UB A multidisciplinary study led by UB researchers has developed a new experimental tool that enables the application ...
Scientists create supersensitive nanomaterials for DNA diagnostics and targeted drug delivery
Credit: Vladimir Cherkasov et al./ACS Nano In 1900, German physician Paul Ehrlich came up with the notion of a "magic ...
New journal to publish discoveries in biophysics
Credit: Cambridge University Press A new open access journal from Cambridge University Press - QRB Discovery - will provide an ...
Researchers show how Ebola virus hijacks host lipids
The VP40 protein, encoded by one of Ebola's seven genes, has a region that is crucial for binding to the ...
New technique tracks individual protein movement on live cells
New microscopy method allows researchers to follow individual molecules over long periods of time as they move along and inside ...
Cancer immunotherapy target helps fight solid tumors
Solid tumors are notoriously hard to treat with immunotherapy, but new research provides a target for disarming these cancers and ...