Single-molecule biophysics is the study of the dynamics and interactions of individual biomolecules to understand how they carry out their functions in living cells. For example, monitoring the ...

Controlling single-outcome single-molecule reactions is now almost routine in research laboratories across the world. For example, more than a decade ago, researchers from the technology giant IBM ...

What is the size of a single molecule of oil? What may initially seem like a trick question – answerable only through the use of complicated, high-tech scientific equipment – is actually as ...

"Stretching DNA refers to the process of stretching a single DNA molecule, which is originally coiled in a random coil, into a straight line," Azuma said. "The length and structure of a single DNA ...

At the Berlin synchrotron radiation source BESSY II, the largest magnetic anisotropy of a single molecule ever measured ... of potential applications, for example, in energy-efficient data storage.

Enter SynPull, a new synaptosome imaging method developed by David Klenerman, John Danial, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, England. SynPull combines single-molecule pull-down of ...

(B) A single glycerophospholipid molecule is composed of two major regions ... phosphatidylcholine is shown as an example. The hydrophilic head is composed of a choline structure (blue) and ...