Tag: Biomechanics/Biophysics

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: PRODI/ Till Rudack Researchers from Bochum and Osnabrück have gained new insights into the structure of the Ras protein, ...

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