Tag: Biomechanics/Biophysics

Collaboration aims to create 3D images of cells in high resolution The search for new drugs to combat diseases more ...

Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Even before the fertilised egg or zygote can start dividing into daughter cells ...

Intelligent virtual companions like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have long become integrated into our everyday lives. And intelligent computational ...

Researchers from Texas A&M will describe a device capable of producing an ultrasonic whistle to deter bats from flying into ...

New study adds to our understanding of how influenza A effectively overcomes the first line of our defence against infectionCredit: ...

Credit: Kanazawa University Most organisms on Earth have circadian clocks. In mammals, the circadian pacemaker is located in the suprachiasmatic ...

Credit: Dr Hiromi Takahashi of the Kuroda laboratory. If you look at a snail's shell, the chances are it will ...

Pseudomonas bacteria detect and respond to the speed (shear rate) of flowing fluidsCredit: Illustration by Matilda Luk, Princeton University Office ...

New 'neuronal metronome' suggests how the brain might learn a rhythm, not just perceive it A new mathematical model demonstrates ...

Discovery by MU scientists could inform future studies related to spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis and epilepsyCredit: University of Missouri ...

Cooperation of cell biologists and physicists at IST Austria unravels physical basis of yolk-cytoplasm segregation in early fish embryo; study ...

New project on a carnivorous plantCredit: Soenke Scherzer In its Reinhart Koselleck programme, the German Research Foundation (DFG) supports selected ...

Credit: ©DGIST The DGIST Laboratory Animal Resource Center held a signboard hanging ceremony to celebrate its designation as a Korea ...

A simple innovation the size of a grain of sand means we can now analyse cells and tiny particles as ...

Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA (May 8, 2018) - Dysfunctions and malformations in the scaffold of a cell are thought ...

Credit: Kirill Kovalev et al./Science Advances A team of biophysicists from Russia, Germany, and France, featuring researchers from the Moscow ...

Self-organising system enables motile cells to form complex search pattern / Study published in "Nature Physics"Credit: Isabell Begemann, Milos Galic ...

Credit: Igor Siwanowicz Female fruit flies can feel when a sexual partner is a good fit. Scientists have long known ...

To kill bacteria in the blood, our immune system relies on nanomachines that can open deadly holes in their targets. ...

New look at behavior upends common assumptions about bacteriaCredit: Courtesy of the researchers Current biological models assume that many bacteria ...