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Optical Tweezers: An Introduction

Optical tweezers use light and lasers to manipulate objects as small as a single atom, and are mainly used by biological scientists to study DNA and molecular motors. How optical tweezers work,...

http://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1248 | 26 May 2005
Researchers Create High-Resolution Snapshots of Life's Smallest Motor

Life's smallest motor, a protein that shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide, does so by rocking up and down like a seesaw, according to research conducted by scientists at the U.S....

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=16002 | 17 Feb 2010
MIT Researchers Show How Cell Motor Protein Exerts Force to Move

MIT researchers have shown how a cell motor protein exerts the force to move, enabling functions such as cell division.Kinesin, a motor protein that also carries neurotransmitters,...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=8871 | 24 Nov 2008
New Study on Pulling Power of Workhorse Proteins

A new study by Rice University bioengineers finds that the workhorse proteins that move cargo inside living cells behave like prima donnas. The protein, called kinesin, is a two-legged molecular...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=20396 | 8 Nov 2010
Scientists Identify Molecular Mechanism that Maintains Important Feature of Spindle

During cell division, microtubules emanating from each of the spindle poles meet and overlap in the spindle’s midzone. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=18924 | 6 Aug 2010
Specialized Motor Proteins Could Be Turned into Nanoscale Machines for Drug Delivery

Specialized motor proteins that transport cargo within cells could be turned into nanoscale machines for drug delivery, according to bioengineers. Chemical alteration of the proteins'...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=10507 | 20 Mar 2009
Researchers Study Regulation of Molecular Motor Proteins

By Cameron Chai A study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research has described how tiny molecular protein motors save energy or fold in...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=23221 | 16 Aug 2011
Scientists Measure Drag/Friction of Single Molecules

Friction limits the speed and efficiency of macroscopic engines. Is this also true for nanomachines? A Dresden research team used laser tweezers to measure the friction between a single motor...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=13143 | 14 Aug 2009
Brandeis Researchers Study Cilia Beating Patterns to Enable Nanotechnology Advancement

By Cameron Chai Brandeis University lab scientists have created artificial cilia, small hair-like structures that execute functions such as identifying the exact spot of organs during their...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=23113 | 30 Jul 2011
Nanoscale Gears Generate Large Forces Inside Cells

To live is to move. You strike to swat that irritable mosquito, which skilfully evades the hand of death. How did that happen? Who moved your hand, and what saved the mosquito? Enter the Molecular...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=26363 | 18 Jan 2013

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