Finite-time-singularity with noise and damping
The study might be of relevance in the context of hydrodynamics on a nanometer scale, in material physics, and in biophysics.

Untreatable Pain Resulting from Abdominal Cancer: New Hope from Biophysics?
To investigate a possible new method based on biophysical principles (scrambler therapy) to be used in the effective treatment of drug-resistant oncological pain of the visceral/neuropathic type

In Silico Reconstitution of Listeria Propulsion Exhibits Nano-Saltation
A computational model of Listeria monocytogenes propulsion that explicitly simulates a large number of monomer-scale biochemical and mechanical interactions.

Scientists Activate New Cancer Drug Using Light And Oxygen
Researchers at the Ontario Cancer Institute at Princess Margaret Hospital have successfully proven that cancer cells alone can be killed by a new cancer drug that is triggered by a laser light, a process known as photodynamic therapy

Novel 'Canary On A Chip' Sensor Measures Tiny Changes In Cell Volume; Provides Assay Results In Minutes
A novel technology that can test cells in minutes for responses to any stimulus, including antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, radiation or chemotherapy, has been developed by scientists at the University at Buffalo.

Rochester Scientists Develop Fast-working Biosensor
University of Rochester Medical Center scientists have demonstrated a new technology that accurately and rapidly detects the meat-spoiling and sometimes dangerous E. coli bacteria.

In harshest environments, some proteins protected by 'alternate' folding mode
Beset by peers trying to tear them apart, proteins known as proteases constantly risk destruction.

Unified theory relates microbial metabolism to lab and field
The ability to describe the rates at which microbial populations metabolize in the natural environment has been limited by the lack of a general theory of microbial kinetics.

University of Iowa team discovers first moisture-sensing genes
Researchers in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have discovered the first two genes involved in moisture sensing (hygrosensation).

A boost for solar cells with photon fusion
An innovative process that converts low-energy longwave photons (light particles) into higher-energy shortwave photons has been developed

New tool reveals secrets of migrating cells
Two-photon imaging gives real-time video of cells in living tissue

New designer lipid-like peptide with lipid nanostructures for drug delivery systems
Currently, many anticancer drugs are difficult to deliver to patients due to their difficulty to be soluble in water.

Together, biological membranes prevail
Compartmentalization in cells is achieved by lipid membranes. Membrane fusion is an elementary biological event which comes in various forms.

The Case of the Noisy Neurons
The autho suggests that what appears as noise in the experiments are signals from other parts of the cortex—that is, noise is in the eye of the beholder.

Bronchospasm and its biophysical basis in airway smooth muscle
The topics addressed in this review are intended to highlight recent discoveries that bring airway biology and smooth muscle biophysics into the same arena once again.

Disentangling Sub-Millisecond Processes within an Auditory Transduction Chain
The authors presented a novel technique to disambiguate single processing steps within a larger sensory transduction sequence and to analyze their detailed temporal structures.

Surface dynamics in living acinar cells imaged by atomic force microscopy: Identification of plasma membrane structures involved in exocytosis
Their study suggests depressions to be the fusion pores identified earlier in mast cells by freeze-fracture electron microscopy and by electrophysiological measurements.

Fusion Pore in Live Cells
Recent studies using atomic force microscopy demonstrate for the first time the presence of the fusion pore and reveal its morphology and dynamics at near-nanometer resolution and in real time.

SNAREs in Opposing Bilayers Interact in a Circular Array to Form Conducting Pores
Three soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor (NSF)-attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) have been implicated in membrane fusion.

Mechanical Forces Found To Exert Larger Role In Blood Vessel Health And Disease
Mechanical forces, including shear stress, stretch and pressure, can play unsuspected but equivalent roles in some aspects of cardiovascular health and disease.