The progression of Parkinson’s disease is tied to a compromised production of dopamine in the brain, so a great deal of research centers on techniques that can shore up supplies of the key ...

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This seems like a significant development for transitional systems. Researchers from Delft University of Technology’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience have discovered how to use the motors of biological ...

Cells rely on tiny molecular motors to deliver cargo, such as mRNA and organelles, within the cell. The critical nature of this transport system is evidenced by the fact that disruption of motors by ...

One of nature’s best strategies for movement at the cellular scale involves powerful molecular motors: complex molecules that transform chemical energy into mechanical energy to complete tasks such as ...

Biophysicists at Stanford University have finally answered one of the most fundamental questions in molecular biology: How does the tiny motor molecule, known as kinesin, move across a living cell?

“UV light can be dangerous if you want to apply it in any biological system,” Feringa says, because the high-energy light can initiate photochemical reactions that damage biological molecules. For a ...

This Ben Feringa, Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences at the Straingh Insitute for Chemistry, University of Groningen (the Netherlands). The first motor molecule was ...

Expanding on previous work with engines traveling on straight tracks, a team of researchers at Kyoto University and the University of Oxford have successfully used DNA building blocks to construct a ...

In biology, however, molecular machines – for example the kinesin and dyenin motor proteins – often function individually (each kinesin molecule carries its cargo – typically a vesicle filled with ...

Researchers used a light-driven molecular motor to wind two molecular strands into an interlocked ring structure called a catenane, without forming chemical bonds. (Nanowerk News) Threads or ropes can ...

Cells rely on tiny molecular motors to deliver cargo, such as mRNA and organelles, within the cell. The critical nature of this transport system is evidenced by the fact that disruption of motors by ...