Professor Gwo-Bin Vincent Lee, from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and his colleagues have manufactured three-dimensional, micromachined magnetic tweezers to manipulate DNA molecules. Their ...

The way DNA is ‘translated’ into the specific functions of the cell strongly depends on the mechanics, so this information is of great value. Scientists Anthony de Vries, Hans Kanger and Vinod ...

Researchers have created a magnetic tweezer system that could one day make it possible for doctors to do remote, non-invasive, highly precise medical procedures on their patients using a microrobot.

Proteins are the building blocks of the cell through which vital cellular functions are carried out. Remarkably, there are more than 100,000 proteins in our bodies produced from only 20 amino acid ...

An array of magnetic traps designed for manipulating individual biomolecules and measuring the ultrasmall forces that affect their behavior has been demonstrated by scientists at the National ...

(Nanowerk News) Deoxyribonucleaic acid, DNA, can store vast amounts of information encoded as sequences of the molecules, known as nucleotides, cytosine (C), guanine (G), adenine (A), or thymine (T).

Scientists used magnetic tweezers to reveal how the RNA molecule ‘NIHCOLE’ repairs cell damage, hindering cancer treatments such as radiotherapy. If you want to defeat an enemy, one strategy you can ...

The ability of viruses to evade the immune system, as well as pathogenic virulence, makes the study of viral infections and development of novel antiviral compounds essential. Now a recently published ...

The magnetic bead exerting 50-piconewtons of force on the nuclear envelope caused deformation of the nucleus. Credit: Wang et al., Sci. Robot. 4, eaav6180 (2019) Being able to directly probe ...

Single-molecule DNA sequencing takes an important step in a surprising new direction with a sequence-detection method based on magnetic tweezers. As the beads are relatively large, they can be ...