Researchers at UT San Antonio have uncovered new details about electrical signals happening within nerve cells, deepening scientists' understanding of the brain.

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...

Chemistry prize for understanding how cells sense their environment. To clarify your own explanation you should instead say that the protein is in the cell membrane. Many organisms with GPCRs (like ...

Morris F. White (Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston): "Nailing down the pathways involved in insulin signaling and identifying the ones that fail in 12 ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell ...

Dehn AS, Duhaime L, Gogna N, Nishina PM, Kelley K, and Losick VP. Epithelial mechanics are maintained by inhibiting cell fusion with age in Drosophila. Journal of Cell Science. 2023. Oct 15; 136 (20): ...

The anchor points present on the surface of the airways in cystic fibrosis (left, in red) decrease when the balance between the two cell signalling pathways is restored (right). Cystic fibrosis is a ...

Scientists from Tulane University and The University of Texas at Dallas have discovered a new way that nerve cells communicate – by releasing an enzyme outside the cell that switches on pain signaling ...