Researchers have discovered a tube-shaped structure that forms temporarily in a certain type of virus to deliver its DNA during the infection process and then dissolves after its job is completed. The ...

image: Researchers from the University of Tsukuba used a liquid crystal structure assembled from linear viruses as a template for synthesizing conducting polymer. Polypyrrole was grown from a helical ...

Inside a cell, a single protein emerges from from the cell’s protein-making machinery, then another, and another. They move about—bouncing into one another, wriggling around, and drifting away again.

Our bodies are alive with electrical signals that allow us to contract muscles and sense the world. The complex brain orchestrates these processes, but it turns out that even simpler biological ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) For decades, researchers have sought to understand and harness the pyroelectric effect in biological materials. Pyroelectricity refers to the phenomenon where heating or cooling a ...