News tagged with molecular motor
Mini cargo transporters on a rat run: New insight on molecular motor movement
Kinesins assume a vital function in our cells: The tiny cargo transporters move important substances along lengthy protein fibers and ensure an effective transportation infrastructure. Biophysicists of the ...
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Molecular motor struts like drunken sailor
Monty Python may claim credit for immortalizing the “silly walk,” but molecular biology beat the comedy troupe to the punch. It turns out that a tiny motor inside of us called dynein, one tasked with shuttling vital ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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How a molecular traffic jam impacts cell division
Interdisciplinary research between biology and physics aims to understand the cell and how it organizes internally. The mechanisms inside the cell are very complicated. LMU biophysicist Professor Erwin Frey, who is also a ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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World's smallest electric motor made from a single molecule
Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences have developed the world's first single molecule electric motor, a development that may potentially create a new class of devices that could be used ...
Sep 04, 2011 |
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Researchers find new 'molecular motors' that bacteria use to transport proteins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Joshua Shaevitz, an assistant professor from the Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, along with Mingzhai Sun, a postdoctoral associate at ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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NIH grant ratchets up ASU research in molecular motors
Empowered by a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Arizona State University scientist Wayne Frasch is deciphering how one of the world’s smallest molecular motors works in ...
May 30, 2011 |
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A molecular motor design breakthrough
French researchers from CNRS and the Universite de Bordeaux, in collaboration with a Chinese team , have developed the first molecular piston capable of self-assembly. Their research represents a significant technological ...
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Researchers ID molecular link key for cell growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a cell is preparing to grow or replicate, it starts the way a monarch planning to expand his territory might: by identifying and marshaling the necessary resources, loading them onto ...
Jan 24, 2011 |
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And the beat goes on: Scientists jump-start the heart by gene transfer
Scientists from the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota show in a research report published online in the FASEB Journal that gene therapy may be used to improve an ailing heart's ability to contract properly. In additi ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Newly discovered mechanism in cell division has implications for chromosome's role in cancer
"A biologist, a physicist, and a nanotechnologist walk into a..." sounds like the start of a joke. Instead, it was the start of a collaboration that has helped to decipher a critical, but so far largely unstudied, ...
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Molecular motors in cells work together, study shows
Even within cells, the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. Molecular motors, the little engines that power cell mobility and the ability of cells to transport internal cargo, work together and in close coordination, ...
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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Researchers 'unzip' molecules to measure interactions keeping DNA packed in cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has ever battled a stuck zipper knows it's a good idea to see what's stuck, where and how badly -- and then to pull hard. A Cornell research team's experiments involve the "unzipping" ...
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Biologists learn structure, mechanism of powerful 'molecular motor' in virus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered the atomic structure of a powerful "molecular motor" that packages DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their assembly, an essential step in their ability ...
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Dec 24, 2008 |
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