New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

Scientists have used the latest advances in microscopy to characterize how a motor protein helps cells crawl, according to a study published in the Journal of Cell Biology. Non-muscle myosin 2 is ...

The motion of motor proteins on biopolymers is important for diverse biological processes. Actin, microtubules, and nucleic acids can serve as one-dimensional tracks on which motor proteins move.

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...

Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing PhD students and early-career researchers to navigate an uncertain future. On March 7, researchers will rally in Washington, D.C.

As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and they serve as the catalysts for virtually every biochemical reaction that occurs in living things.

In another study using this technology, we actually have to unfold a protein twice: once before it can go through the nanopore via electrophoretic force and once before it can come back up. There is ...

Activating a protein called potassium channel Kv2.1 may help improve motor function in SMA, making it a potential SMA ...

"We not only succeeded in capturing the protein membrane translocation process in real-time—an event previously elusive to ...

In some cases, motor proteins "walk along" these tubes. The ETH researchers have not yet observed such motor proteins in Asgard archaea. "We have shown, however, that the tubes formed from these ...