Cholesterol tremendously increases the toxicity of a peptide implicated in Alzheimer’s progression, according to research by scientists in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in Texas A&M’s ...

DNA’s iconic double helix does more than “just” store genetic information. Under certain conditions it can temporarily fold into unusual shapes. Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have now shown ...

Motivated by the problem of inferring the molecular dynamics of DNA in solution, and linking them with its base-pair composition, we consider the problem of comparing the dynamics of functional time ...

Many of the most fundamental questions about the nature of life are illuminated at the scale of a single biological molecule. Studies of single-molecule biophysics combine in vivo (in live cells) and ...

A new study shows how one of the cell's most important energy-producing machines is built. Researchers at Karolinska ...

Magnetic tweezers represent a robust tool for manipulating single molecules, offering the capability to apply and measure forces on individual biological macromolecules with high spatial and temporal ...

Scientists have engineered a nanowire platform that mimics brain tissue to study astrocytes, the star-shaped cells critical for brain health, for the first time in their natural state. Astrocytes are ...

A new study in Nature Communications shows how one of the cell's most important energy-producing machines is built. Researchers at Karolinska ...

The National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year grant to the University to aid a graduate program in Biophysics. Arthur K.

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen environmental ...

As a field, molecular biophysics crosses the traditional boundaries between biology, chemistry, and physics. A central goal of the Molecular Biophysics Graduate Training Program is to establish the ...