Gold standard force fields help identify promising peptides to disrupt COVID-19
University of Utah researchers rapidly generate molecular models of compounds relevant for COVID-19Credit: Cheatham Lab Drug discovery is arduous, expensive, ...
Tag: Biomechanics/Biophysics
Rat spinal cords control neural function in biobots
The interaction between a rat spinal cord and an engineered muscle system displays behavior similar to the peripheral nervous systemCredit: ...
How blood cells deform, recover when traveling through tiny channels
Two different types of shape recovery behaviors for red blood cells traveling through microfluidic channels may pave the way to ...
Giving distressed lungs a safer fighting chance
FDA grants Pitt spinout ALung Technologies emergency use approval for its Hemolung to treat COVID-19 patients with respiratory distressCredit: ALung ...
Biochemists unveil molecular mechanism for motor protein regulation
Lis1 activates dynein by preventing dynein's ability to turn itself offCredit: Markus Lab/Colorado State University Movement signals life, and nowhere ...
Researchers weave human tissue into new blood vessels
Versatile tissue engineering approach could aid in repairing damage for many tissues and organsCredit: Nicolas L'Heureux, Inserm/University of Bordeaux, France ...
Feeling the pressure: How blood vessels sense their environment
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba identify the protein thrombospondin-1 as a novel extracellular mediator of mechanotransduction triggered by mechanical ...
Electronic skin fully powered by sweat can monitor health
Credit: Caltech One of the ways we experience the world around us is through our skin. From sensing temperature and ...
AI fast-tracks drug discovery to fight COVID-19
Deep learning paired with drug docking and molecular dynamics simulations identify small molecules to shut down virusCredit: Argonne National Laboratory ...
Ultrasound-assisted molecule delivery looks to preserve blood for years
Fine-tuning microbubbles creates pores in blood cells and allows the insertion of molecules, including a special sugar used by some ...
Scientists discover new features of molecular elevator
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Biophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the University of Groningen in ...
Researchers unveil electronics that mimic the human brain in efficient learning
UMass Amherst researchers advance neuromorphic computingCredit: UMass Amherst/Yao lab AMHERST, Mass. - Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what ...
Molecular networks serve as cellular blueprints
Credit: The researchers Networks are at the heart of everything from communications systems to pandemics. Now researchers have found that ...
Insight into the synapses
Credit: (Picture: Chair Markus Sauer / University of Würzburg) When people think of glutamate, the first thing they remember is ...
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