Intracellular organelle transport relies on specialised molecular motors that convert chemical energy into mechanical force along cytoskeletal tracks. Kinesins and dyneins navigate microtubules over ...

(Nanowerk News) Light-driven molecular motors were first developed nearly 25 years ago at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. This resulted in a shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry for ...

Threads or ropes can easily be used for braiding, knotting, and weaving. In chemistry, however, processing molecular strands in this way is an almost impossible task. This is because molecules are not ...

Many of the processes in our cells are powered by a critical energy-storing molecule known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP). A typical human cell uses millions of ATP molecules a second to generate the ...

Biology is full of molecular machines, such as motor proteins and ATP synthase, that operate self-sufficiently through cycles of oxidation and reduction. A team of human chemists at the University of ...

Professor Jiawen Chen and Associate Researcher Yan Wang from South China Normal University, in collaboration with Professor Ben L. Feringa's team at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, designed ...