About this article Cite this article Gill, M., Byrd, R. Dynamic activation of apoptosis: conformational ensembles of cIAP1 are linked to a spring-loaded mechanism.

Mechanism of spring-loaded seed launch discovered Date: January 27, 2011 Source: Journal of Experimental Biology Summary: When filaree seeds ripen and burst, they are launched with an inbuilt ...

Researchers provide the first mechanical description of the jaws of a group of trap-jaw ants that can snap their spring-loaded jaws shut at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour -- just fast enough to ...

In a typical spring-loaded mechanism, once the physical latch is removed, the spring would immediately release the stored energy, but when the sclerites unlatch in a mantis shrimp appendage, there ...

The model hinted that these spring-loaded mechanisms should generally become less efficient at larger scales, and therefore, smaller springs with less mass should generate higher acceleration when ...