Tag Archives: Biophysics

Airborne Spiders Drift on Multiple Silk Threads

Simulations reveal new details of the way spiders can fly by exploiting the electric field present in the atmosphere. Continue reading

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Ultrasound Imaging of Brain with Machine Learning

A proposed machine-learning technique can convert ultrasound signals into a skull profile, which could lead to noninvasive imaging for medical treatments in the human brain. Read more in APS Physics…

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Shape-Shifting Proteins Follow Diffusion Rules

How quickly a protein diffuses in a liquid depends directly on its radius, which changes as the protein’s conformation fluctuates. Continue reading

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Evolutionary insights into shape-shifting proteins

Over millions of years a protein that now folds into two stable structures likely favored first one configuration, then the other, before settling on both. Continue reading

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Evolutionary insights into shape-shifting protein

A protein that has two stable structures likely evolved from an ancestor that had only one. Continue reading

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A Vortex in an Egg Cell

During a fruit-fly egg cell’s early development, its internal fluid begins to swirl in a vortex—a transition caused by the coordinated behavior of elastic filaments in the cell. Continue reading

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Active Particles Map to Passive Random Walks

Researchers make systems of self-propelled particles produce the same large-scale dynamics as passive-particle systems. Continue reading

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