Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 9 (March 1, 2022), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) Voltage-gated ion channels confer excitability to biological ...

The study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital presents a new understanding of how a VGIC, crucial for the communication of neurons and muscle cells, can become unresponsive. Scientists at St.

Scientists have revealed the secret to the structural integrity of tiny particles that transport cargo from cell to cell through blood vessels and bodily fluids: special proteins that keep their ...

Recently, researchers developed a non-invasive method combining electrical impedance tomography and extracellular voltage activation to evaluate drug effects on ion channels. The resulting printed ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) envelope (E) protein activity in terms of calcium ...

A member of an important class of ion channel proteins can transiently rearrange itself into a larger structure with dramatically altered properties, according to a study led by researchers at Weill ...

Instrument Seeks to Advance Ligand-Gated Aspect of Critically Important Field The first decade of the 21st century has delivered an extraordinary range of new technologies with relevance to ...

In a surprising new finding, neuroscientists have shown that human neurons have a much lower density of ion channels than expected, compared to the neurons of other mammals. Ion channels produce ...

Historically, researchers impaled giant squid, snail, and frog axons with electrodes to study nerve function by measuring ion channels. Today, electrophysiologists have enhanced their ability to ...

image: From left to right, Dr. Chia-Hsueh Lee and Dr. Hongtu Zhao of the Department of Structural Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Dr. Lee and Dr. Zhao are co-authors of a new study ...