Quantum effects help make DNA unstable
Proton tunnelling can create genetic mutations, say researchers
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Graphene ‘drums’ pick up vibrations from individual bacteria
Drums made from the 2D carbon sheet might be used to detect antibiotic resistance quickly and simply by monitoring bacterial movement
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Far-UVC light zaps airborne pathogens in realistic conditions
Technology could make indoor areas as safe as outdoors, say physicists
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Super-resolution microscopy reveals coronavirus-replicating machinery
Technique could provide fresh insights into the life cycle of viruses like SARS-Cov-2
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Bacterial swimming in complex fluids better understood with new experiment, model
Study sheds new light on how bacteria swim in complex fluids
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Simulations shed light on interactions that help spiders fly
Researchers reveal how some spiders can float and drift like a balloon by exploiting the electric field present in the atmosphere
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The Human Organ Atlas: a ‘Google Earth’ for our bodies
A visionary biophysics project has emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic
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Drawing up a ‘Google Earth’ of the human body
A new synchrotron-imaging technique is helping researchers shed a new light on human anatomy. Jon Cartwright zooms in
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The first electron counts – how anaerobic microbes ‘breathe’ iron
Only the first of two electrons transferred from a cell to an external mineral determines the rate of iron-based bacterial respiration
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Ultrafast cryo-arrest of living cells reveals biomolecular patterns with unprecedented resolution
Fluorescence microscopy technique enables observation of biomolecular patterns in their native state down to the nanometre scale, by rapidly cooling cells to –196 °C
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