biophysics

At 33, Dal Co had already founded her own microbial ecology lab at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Islands of rigid cells within a matrix of soft ones allow tumors to be both solid and fluid, granting them toughness without losing the ability to break apart.

The biophysicist shared the 1989 Prize in Chemistry for discovering RNA’s catalytic properties.

His research uncovered secrets of motility in E. coli.

His work revealed that sharks use an electromagnetic sense to navigate and detect prey.

His career bridged impactful research in molecular biology and biochemistry with prolific science writing for academic and nonacademic audiences alike.

Liquid conglomerations of molecules that form in bacterial cells in response to stress promote the cells’ survival, a study finds.

Jeremy England, this month’s Reading Frames author, explains his views on how life may have started not with a primordial, disordered soup, but with smart protein assemblages.

The MIT physicist has demonstrated the importance of clusters of RNA polymerase and other transcription mediators in regulating RNA production.

The Yale neuroscientist seeks to understand the brain’s architecture and function using C. elegans.

Spurred by family tragedy, the medical physicist wants to treat cancer in a new way.

A major sensory neuron in roundworms distinguishes proprioception from harmful touch by sending out local or whole-cell signals, respectively.

At magnetic field intensities somewhat above that of Earth, stem cell proliferation shifts gears.

Titin was discovered four decades ago, but some physiology textbooks fail to recognize the important role it plays in muscle contraction.

The Nobel laureate was the first to identify an enzyme moving material across the cell membrane.

Crowds of zooplankton swimming upward generate large downward jets of water, a study finds.

Proteins and RNA aggregate into “membraneless organelles” due to liquid-liquid phase separation.

A new mathematical model suggests the “popping” sound comes from partial bursts of gas sacs in joint fluid.

Researchers show how condensin complexes organize DNA in real time.