Developments from the Study of Cells and Molecular Machines

Intelligent design becomes increasingly apparent at the smallest scales of life as imaging improves and scientists get a closer look at the cell's inner workings.

Dynein

Scripps Institute seeks to reveal the "structural secrets of nature's little locomotive." (Emphasis added.) The dynein-dynactin complex has defied analysis because "the complex's large size, myriad subunits and high flexibility have until now restricted structural studies to small pieces of the whole." Finer details have sho...