Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...

For numerous fundamental processes of life, the formation of certain protein patterns is essential. Protein pattern formation controlled by molecular switches is – like many processes in nature – far ...

The phase separation of oil and water is a classic example of a process ubiquitous in nature, in which mixtures separate into their constituent parts. Scientists have also repeatedly identified ...

I am interested in equilibrium and non-equilibrium soft condensed matter physics and biophysics. Currently, I study the collective motion of self-propelled rods in 2D and the motion of motor proteins ...

The crowding inherent within cells may affect not only protein movement and folding, but also shape, according to Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and her colleagues.