They are literally channels for communication: Pore-forming proteins in living cells, termed ion channels, are embedded in the outer membrane of almost all cell types and play a crucial role in the ...

Scientists applied molecular dynamics simulations to visualize how potassium ions pass through a potassium ion channel at atomic resolution for the first time. (Nanowerk News) The patch clamp ...

This article and associated images are based on a poster originally authored by Sivakumar, M, Smith, E, Shumate, J, Scampavia, L, Spicer, T, Hernandez, D and Peters, C and presented at ELRIG Drug ...

Sensory neurons that respond to temperature, touch and pain have ways of adapting to repeated stimuli that can change how a body experiences those sensations. In a recent paper, Thomas Jefferson ...