University of Groningen Professor of Organic Chemistry Ben Feringa and two of his colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

At a microscopic scale, only natural motors have existed in organisms such as archae. Now, researchers have built such motors ...

This wind-up motor is a tiny ribbon made of special molecules ... the direction of rotation -- clockwise or anti-clockwise -- can be influenced by the structure of the molecular building blocks of the ...

To address the unmet need for a cure for RTT, the therapeutic potential of adult Neural Precursor Cells (NPCs) was ...

A breakthrough cancer treatment uses molecular jackhammers to rupture cancer cells, offering a new path for non-invasive ...

Among them, light-triggered molecular motors are a category of photochemical switches with two parts that produce unidirectional mechanical motion at the nanoscale, on demand, upon external stimuli.

After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to ...

Their work using evolved Feringa-type molecular motors destroyed membranes of cancer cells. This process uses infrared light to penetrate tissue without invasive and sometimes dangerous surgery. It ...

As with any type of tumor, brain tumors are an abnormal growth of cells, the number of which will determine, in part, the overall size of the tumor. In the case of benign brain tumors, these cells ...