NEW ORLEANS, March 19, 2024 — At first glance, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi’s molecular motors look like the microscopic worms you’d see in a drop of pond water. But these wriggling ribbons are not alive; ...

Light-driven molecular motors were first developed nearly 25 years ago. However, making these motors do actual work proved to be a challenge. In a new paper, scientists describe improvements that ...

Researchers are using molecular motors as a new tool for medical intervention to target and destroy cancer cells. (Nanowerk News) Imagine tiny machines, smaller than a virus, spinning inside cancer ...

Researchers created upconversion nanoparticles that turn near-infrared light into blue/UV light to power molecular motors for materials and biological uses. (Nanowerk News) In a collaboration with the ...

Exclusion processes and molecular motor dynamics form a vibrant field at the interface of statistical physics and cellular biophysics. At its core, the framework of exclusion processes offers a means ...

Fast-scanning atomic force microscopy imaging of the molecule at two different time points shows positional shifts along the polymer chain on the left. On the right, the molecular structure of PEG ...

Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago ...

Molecular motors such as kinesin are essential cellular machines that convert the chemical energy of ATP hydrolysis into mechanical work. These proteins enable the directed transport of vesicles, ...

Researchers have found a new way to optimise the design of molecular motors, bringing us one step closer to making synthetic molecular machines a reality Ribbon diagram of the structure of a protein.

Light-driven molecular motors were first developed nearly 25 years ago at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. This resulted in a shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry for Professor Ben Feringa in ...