BY JAMES URQUHART 11 JULY 2023 A new drug delivery technique uses synthetic molecular motors to release a drug when activated by visible light. The proof-of-principle delivery mechanism, which was tested on cultured lung cancer cells, could enable a non-invasive, highly controlled and targeted way to activate drugs inside the body. Ben Feringa at the University...
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Fast heart, slow heart: Changes in the molecular motor myosin explain the difference
PLOS The human heart contracts about 70 times per minute, while that of a rat contracts over 300 times; what accounts for this difference? A new study publishing 10th June in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, led by Michael Geeves and Mark Wass of the University of Kent and Leslie Leinwand from the University of...
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Biophysicists find ‘extra’ component in molecular motor
MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have discovered an additional component in ATP synthase, a molecular machine that produces the energy-conserving compound in all cellular organisms. The new unique features of the ATP synthase structure are described in detail in a paper in Scientific Reports. In...