Biomechanics/Biophysics

Insilico to present its research at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's 4th Innovative China Conference Friday, May 24, 2019 - Insilico Medicine, a biotech company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the next…

Credit: ©DGIST DGIST faculty clarified that the fundamental neural circuit mechanism involved in antidepressant efficacy to treat depression, one of serious mental diseases in today's society. This is expected to contribute to the…

New molecule designed at Indiana University could help reduce growing level of salt contaminants flowing into freshwater streams and lakes across the USCredit: Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Indiana University…

Credit: ICFO Invented approximately 50 years ago, surgical medical meshes have become key elements in the recovery procedures of damaged-tissue surgeries, the most common being hernia repair. When implanted within the tissue of the…

Columbia University scientists develop material that can drive mechanical systemsCredit: Ozgur Sahin Laboratory New research from the laboratory of Ozgur Sahin, associate professor of biological sciences and physics at Columbia University,…

Credit: SFU Inside all of us are trillions of tiny molecular nanomachines that perform a variety of tasks necessary to keep us alive. In a ground-breaking study, a team led by SFU physics professor David Sivak demonstrated for the first…

Researchers create most complete model of complex protein machineryCredit: Image credit: Ivaylo Ivanov, Georgia State University Environmental conditions, lifestyle choices, chemical exposure, and foodborne and airborne pathogens are among…

A simple, inexpensive device that forces cells through tiny channels shows promise as a detector for metastatic cancerCredit: Fazle Hussain, Texas Tech University WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2019 -- Prostate cancer is the…

Credit: Professors Xiaohui (Frank) Zhang, Alparslan Oztekin, Xuanhong Cheng and Edmund Webb III of Lehigh University Under normal, healthy circulatory conditions, the von Willebrand Factor (vWF) keeps to itself. The large and mysterious…

Credit: Troye Fox For a drug to intervene in cells or entire organs that are not behaving normally it must first bind to specific protein receptors in the cell membranes. Receptors can change their molecular structure in a multitude of…