International Research Collaboration Reveals the Mechanism of the Sodium-Potassium Pump
Researchers have been able to establish the structure of the sodium-potassium pump. ... Read More...
cellular neuroscience
Scientists Develop New Process to Create Artificial Cell Membranes
Researchers have developed a new process to create synthetic cell membranes. ... Read More...
Spring Cleaning in Your Brain: Stem Cell Research Shows How Important Autophagy Is
Years of mouse research lead to discovery of how autophagy keeps neural stem cells ready to replace damaged brain and nerve cells.... Read More...
Nanomachines for Bionic Proteins
Researchers developed nanomachines which recreate principal activities of proteins. They present the first versatile and modular example of a fully artificial protein-mimetic model system.... Read More...
A Better Way to Culture Central Nervous Cells
A protein associated with neuron damage in Alzheimer's patients provides a superior scaffold for growing central nervous system cells in the lab. ... Read More...
Artificial Butter Flavoring Ingredient Linked to Key Alzheimer’s Disease Process
A new study raises concern about chronic exposure of workers in industry to a food flavoring ingredient used to produce the distinctive buttery flavor and aroma of microwave popcorn, margarines, snack foods, candy, baked goods, pet foods and other products. It found evidence that the ingredient, diacetyl (DA), intensifies the damaging effects of an abnormal brain protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease.... Read More...
Cylindrical Cell Structure Parts May Aid in Targeting Diseases Such as Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
The model of microtubule assembly that most people accept shows the individual subunits, dimers of the protein tubulin, just adding to the grow cylinder. But another model indicates that tubulin dimmers first form an open sheet structure that later closes into the cylinder. Xing and his team concluded that their computational study of the models indicate that the second model should be seriously considered for further testing.... Read More...
Clues to Nervous System Evolution Found in Nerve-less Sponge
UC Santa Barbara scientists turned to the simple sponge to find clues about the evolution of the complex nervous system and found that, but for a mechanism that... Read More...
Robot Reveals the Inner Workings of Brain Cells – Robotic Whole-Cell Patch Clamping
New method offers automated way to record electrical activity inside neurons in the living brain.Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the liv... Read More...