{"id":215848,"date":"2025-06-13T06:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-new-form-of-molecular-motion-guest-molecules-cut-through-dna-polymer-droplets-in-wave-pattern"},"modified":"2025-06-13T06:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:20:48","slug":"a-new-form-of-molecular-motion-guest-molecules-cut-through-dna-polymer-droplets-in-wave-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-new-form-of-molecular-motion-guest-molecules-cut-through-dna-polymer-droplets-in-wave-pattern","title":{"rendered":"A new form of molecular motion: Guest molecules cut through DNA polymer droplets in wave pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-form-of-molecular-motion-guest-molecules-cut-through-dna-polymer-droplets-in-wave-pattern2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have identified a form of molecular motion that has not previously been observed. When what are known as \u201cguest molecules\u201d\u2014molecules that are accommodated within a host molecule\u2014penetrate droplets of DNA polymers, they do not simply diffuse in them in a haphazard fashion, but propagate through them in the form of a clearly-defined frontal wave. The team includes researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an effect we did not expect at all,\u201d points out Weixiang Chen of the Department of Chemistry at JGU, who played a major role in the discovery. The findings of the research team are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-025-01941-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>The new insights are not only fundamental to our understanding of how cells regulate signals, but they could also contribute to the development of intelligent biomaterials, innovative types of membranes, programmable carriers of active ingredients and synthetic cell systems able to imitate the organizational complexity of the processes in living beings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have identified a form of molecular motion that has not previously been observed. When what are known as \u201cguest molecules\u201d\u2014molecules that are accommodated within a host molecule\u2014penetrate droplets of DNA polymers, they do not simply diffuse in them in a haphazard fashion, but propagate through them in the form of a clearly-defined frontal wave. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}