Image of the device jumping, with lines added over the position of the jumper every approximately 656 feet per second. Human is 6 feet tall. (Hawkes et al/Science) (CN) — Once, robots could only jump ...

"Frankly, some researchers didn't think what we were attempting was possible," says Dr Keith Firman, at Portsmouth University and Mol-Switch project coordinator, funded under the European Commission's ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A multidisciplinary Purdue research team will lead one of eight national nanomedicine development centers. The National Institutes of Health awarded the team $7 million over ...

This seems like a significant development for transitional systems. Researchers from Delft University of Technology’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience have discovered how to use the motors of biological ...

New light has been shed on a type of molecular motor used to package the DNA of a number of viruses, including herpes and the adenoviruses. Their findings could help in the development of more ...

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Scientists at Purdue University and the University of Minnesota have solved the three-dimensional structure of the central component of a biological "motor" that powers the DNA packaging system in a ...

WOODS HOLE, MASS.—Scientists who invented new ways to study how "cargo" is moved within cells and, as a result, discovered a new biological motor protein, kinesin, at the Marine Biological Laboratory ...

Scientists have created a molecular switch that could play a key role in thousands of nanotech applications. The Mol-Switch project developed a demonstrator to prove the principle, despite deep ...