In a major brain science breakthrough, New Orleans-based researchers and collaborators have discovered a nerve signaling ...

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

P-cadherin is a protein commonly found on malignant cancer cells and has been used as a target for antibody-based cancer treatments. UC Davis biomedical engineers have discovered that when an antibody ...

Researchers at UT San Antonio have uncovered new details about electrical signals happening within nerve cells, deepening ...

As key players of gene regulation in many bacteria, small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) associated with the RNA chaperone Hfq shape numerous phenotypic traits, including metabolism, stress response and ...

The human gut renews itself faster than any other tissue: every few days, new cells are created from specialized stem cells.

Knowing that naloxone works by stalling the µ-opioid receptor in an early, latent state suggests that molecules that can bind more tightly or more selectively to this form of the receptor could be ...

Desensitization of neurons to dopamine is a well-known effect in addiction. However, researchers found a natural example of ...