Professor Takayuki Nishizaka and Dr. Yoshiaki Kinosita from Gakushuin University, together with Dr. Yoshitomo Kikuchi (Senior Researcher) from AIST, have discovered an unforeseen form of ...

The survival curves for a population of reactivated spermatozoa exposed to digestion by trypsin indicate that a large number of trypsin-sensitive targets must be digested before the flagellum ...

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) developed a motility-reactivation method to help determine how light-responsive changes in flagellar waveform in Volvox rousseletii, a ...

In most people, these bacteria coexist peacefully and contribute to a mutually beneficial relationship, with both human and ...

Antibodies binding to sea urchin flagellar outer-doublet tubulin have been isolated from rabbit sera by tubulin-affinity chromatography employing electrophoretically purified tubulin as the ...

Sperm can modulate their energetics by regulating their flagellar waveform -- how the sperm oscillate their tails -- in order to adapt to varying fluid environments, potentially optimizing their ...

The sperm’s ability to fertilize an egg depends on its ability to swim. The astounding motility of the sperm depends on mitochondria that power it, an acrosomal vesicle filled with enzymes that ...

Scientists have constructed a high-resolution 3D model that shows what happens when a bacterial motor switches directions. Nagoya University scientists in Japan and colleagues at Yale University in ...