At the molecular level, this concept forms the foundation of molecular motors—intricate systems that could enable advanced ...

Molecular motors are biological nanomachines that convert chemical energy into mechanical work at the molecular level. These highly efficient and specialized proteins are responsible for a wide range ...

Using cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy, scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed ...

Scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed “molecular movie” showing DNA being unzipped at ...

In the micro-world of cells, biological motors perform a multitude of tasks such as muscle contraction. But how do these biomolecules convert chemical energy into motion? This simple question is still ...

But how does such coordinated motion happen? The universal answer, it turns out, is molecular motors: proteins that convert the energy in adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the cellular food source, to ...

No biological system has been studied by more diverse approaches than the actin-based molecular motor myosin. Biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, classical genetics and molecular genetics have ...

The discovery, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, is stated to have far-reaching implications, helping us to ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.