Cells constantly shift and transform, triggering the complex choreography that shapes living organisms. Whether dividing into ...

This light energy breaks apart carbon dioxide and ... Trees are shaped by both what they are but also where they are. It is both their nature and their nurture that affects what they become. Tree ...

Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start ...

Now, researchers at MIT have discovered a way to manipulate these early cellular motions using light, providing a new tool to ...

“We aimed to mimic nature by fabricating flagella ... T-type (in which a molecule induced to change by light slowly reverts to its original shape after a time) or P-type (where shape-change ...

The researchers observed that light activated the enzyme, causing predictable cell movements. For example, specific light ...

MIT scientists have discovered a way to control the movements of starfish cells using light, which could have biomedical applications.

Incredibly natural and even synthetic materials can – like magic – move and create for themselves a new shape like roses or curled fingers when exposed to light ... by nature and how materials ...

The editors at Nature have published a Research ... laser at a piece of gallium arsenide that had been shaped with special ridges. As the light struck the ridges, interactions between it and ...

Recently, scientists harnessed these movements using beams of light to ... understand how nature does it." Starfish offer a uniquely useful model for studying cell growth and shape.

They could even shine light at specific points around a cell to stretch its shape from a circle to a square. Their results, which will appear in the journal Nature Physics, provide scientists with ...