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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have found a new way to optimise the design of molecular motors, bringing us one step closer to making synthetic molecular machines a reality Ribbon diagram of the structure of a protein.

A molecular model shows two macrocycles interlocked like links in a chain, with additional atoms attached on the side of one ring. This conceptual version of the catenane made by Michael Kathan and ...

In a collaboration with the group of Prof. Ben Feringa at Groningen University, Prof. Hong Zhang and his PhD graduate Dr Kefan Wu at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular ...