Life Sciences and Chemistry

Articles and reports from the Life Sciences and chemistry area deal with applied and basic research into modern biology, chemistry and human medicine.

Valuable information can be found on a range of life sciences fields including bacteriology, biochemistry, bionics, bioinformatics, biophysics, biotechnology, genetics, geobotany, human biology, marine biology, microbiology, molecular biology, cellular biology, zoology, bioinorganic chemistry, microchemistry and environmental chemistry.

Soft and flexible “skeletons” for muscle-powered robots

New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid bots. Our muscles are nature’s perfect actuators — devices that turn…

Shaping Cells with Light

With the Flick of a Switch… Imagine switching on a light and being able to understand and control the inner dynamics of a cell. This is what the Dimova group…

Physics of complex fluids

Ring polymers show unexpected motion patterns under shear. It all depends on the linking: How ring polymers move… An international research team is attracting the attention of experts in the…

How Plants Heal Wounds

Pressure changes and mechanical forces trigger wound healing in plants. Plants are very robust and survive harsh environments, owing in part to their remarkably efficient wound-healing capacity. For over a…

Nerve Cells “Old at Heart”

New research shows: key molecules within nerve cells persist throughout life. Most human nerve cells last a lifetime without renewal. A trait echoed within the cells’ components, some enduring as…

Heat flows the secret to order in prebiotic molecular kitchen

LMU biophysicists have demonstrated how heat flows through rock fissures could have created the conditions for the emergence of life. Life is complicated. What is true for our everyday existence…

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