In the past few decades, the field of DNA origami-based micro/nanotechnology has
developed dramatically and spawned attention increasingly, as its high integrality, rigid …

Magnetic force spectroscopy is a rapidly developing single molecule technique that has
found numerous applications at the interface of physics and biology. Since the invention of …

Forces in biological systems are typically investigated at the single-molecule level with
atomic force microscopy or optical and magnetic tweezers, but these techniques suffer from …

Molecular motors are diverse enzymes that transduce chemical energy into mechanical
work and, in doing so, perform critical cellular functions such as DNA replication and …

Magnetic tape heads are ubiquitously used to read and record on magnetic tapes in
technologies as diverse as old VHS tapes, modern hard-drive disks, or magnetic bands on …

Nucleic acids are central to the storage and transmission of genetic information. Mechanical
properties, along with their sequence, both enable and fundamentally constrain the …

The reversible unfolding and refolding of proteins is a regulatory mechanism of tissue
elasticity and signalling used by cells to sense and adapt to extracellular and intracellular …

The paradigm of cellular systems as deterministic machines has long guided our
understanding of biology. Advancements in technology and methodology, however, have …

DNA nanostructures assembled on living cell membranes have become powerful research
tools. Synthetic lipid membranes have been used as a membrane model to study the …

CRISPR-Cas effector complexes enable the defense against foreign nucleic acids and have
recently been exploited as molecular tools for precise genome editing at a target locus. To …