Illustration of cancer cells. With help from the best tweezers in the world a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has shed new…
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Device offers insights into artificial muscular pumps, a step toward building an artificial heart. Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from Emory University, have…
Photoactive chloride pumping through the cell membrane captured by time-resolved serial crystallography: Chloride ions (green spheres) are transported across the cell membrane by the NmHR…
This fluorescence microscopy image shows yeast vacuoles that have undergone phase separation. Credit: Luther Davis/Alexey Merz/University of Washington Membranes are crucial to our cells. Every…
A DNAzyme (red) uses its binding arms to dock at a specific location on an RNA strand (yellow) and then cleaves it at its core.…
Researchers have developed a mathematical model that can predict the optimum exercise regime for building muscle. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used methods…
A simple mechanism could underlie the growth and self-replication of protocells—putative ancestors of modern living cells—suggests a study publishing today (September 3, 2021) in Biophysical…
Tardigrades walk in a manner closely resembling that of insects 500,000 times their size. Credit: Jasmine Nirody Plump and ponderous, tardigrades earned the nickname “water…
Ant mandibles pack a powerful bite, thanks to embedded atoms of zinc. Credit: Robert Schofield | University of Oregon Atomic-scale imaging reveals tiny animals use…
University of Washington and Microsoft researchers have introduced a new class of reporter proteins that can be directly read by a commercially available nanopore sensing…
This color-enhanced image, taken by scanning electron microscopy, shows huge quantities of SARS-CoV-2 particles (purple) that have burst out of kidney cells (green), which the…
Otter floating on water’s surface. Credit: Tray Wright/Texas A&M University (Image obtained under USFWS Marine Mammal Permit No. MA-043219 to R. Davis) Texas A&M researchers…
Snapshot of five-dimensional imaging with temporal-spatial-spectral resolutions. Credit: S. Zhang, East China Normal University Spectral-volumetric compressed ultrafast photography simultaneously captures 5D information in a single…
A diagram of the heart. Colors show the different types of proteins that connect cells, allow electricity to flow, and cause the heart to beat.…
The striped pattern found in a monoatomic layer of bismuth is the same as that found in the pigmentation of certain tropical fish. Both are…
Foam structure for various temperatures and pressures. The bulkiest foams have the largest air pockets and are good for flotation devices. Credit: Heon Park Researchers…
A team led by MIT researchers has systematically analyzed how varying the surface topography found on silicone breast implants influences the development of health complications…
High-speed videos of a person sneezing reveal the best fabric combos for cloth masks. Credit: American Chemical Society During the COVID-19 pandemic, cloth face masks…
Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh shows silicone breast implants with rough (left) and smooth surfaces. Credit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Six-year effort includes researchers…
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) image of the bases of pretarsal (ie, on lowest part of leg) adhesive hairs. (A) On the left are the hair…