A new study shows the tradeoff between power and efficiency in muscles is governed by proteins that form a molecular tuning ...

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 ...

Molecular machines are generally understood to include an array of nanoscale pumps, switches, motors and ratchets. The field ...

His work focuses on the development of novel photochemical switches, molecular machines and photoreactions ... properties of molecular switches and motors. Other research efforts are directed ...

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 ...

An Iupac committee wants your input to help define the meaning of a molecular machine Chemistry is a universal language. The ...

This simple question is still debated. In a study published in Nature, French and English chemists demonstrate how very ...

The Derr lab pursues the biophysical, biochemical, and cell biological mechanisms of the cytoskeletal molecular motors dynein and kinesin. The group studies these molecular machines in two ways: 1) at ...

S cientists 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 ...

We developed a single-molecule optical-trapping assay with Ångström-scale stability and resolution in all three dimensions (3D). We are applying these techniques to study DNA-based molecular motors, ...

Their findings challenge the classical dogma that the molecular motor myosin is essential for the movement of mammalian cells. This insight paves the way for new strategies to control cell ...