Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to ...

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.

Storing and processing memories uses nanoscopic motor proteins called kinesin that move materials around within neurons to ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison introduced a deep learning ...

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 ...

With this strategy, Hell’s team fluorescently tagged and tracked a motor protein called kinesin as it performed its signature walk down the length of a microtubule. Kinesin is a vital player in ...

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.

This study proposes a new mechanism by which Chd1 senses and responds to DNA unwrapping via EDBL engagement to suppress ...

Researchers have shed light on two regulators of huntingtin protein, finding one that mitigates Huntington's disease and one that exacerbates it.

These latter movements are currently thought to be catalyzed by motor proteins that connect microtubules with opposite polarity and then "walk" toward the end of the microtubules. Mitosis ends ...

When Columbia neurologist and scientist Neil Shneider speaks to his ALS patients who volunteer for experimental therapies, he's unwaveringly honest.