DNA, long known as the molecule that carries genetic information, is taking on a new role in science. Researchers now see it ...

Scientists have developed a network of mechanical motors that mimic the molecular machinery underpinning human muscle ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have created a network of simple mechanical motors ...

The structural design of molecular machines and motors endows them with externally controlled directional motion at the molecular scale. Molecular machines based on both interlocked and ...

Imagine a microscopic locomotive moving back and forth along a track, propelling itself without any external force. At the molecular level, this concept forms the foundation of molecular motors -- ...

Scientists have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago they found that these so-called SMC motor proteins make long loops in our DNA, they ...

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 ...

Imagine tiny machines, smaller than a virus, spinning inside cancer cells and rewiring their behavior from within. No surgery, no harsh chemicals, just precision at the molecular level. Two ...

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 ...