A collaborative French-Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing. Published in the journal Cell, the research shows that these glial cells are ...

A collaborative French-Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing. Dozens of synapses ...

Before a chain of amino acids can become an active and useful protein, it must be processed and folded into the appropriate conformation. Much of this processing occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum ...

Before a chain of amino acids can become an active and useful protein, it must be processed and folded into the appropriate conformation. Much of this ...

A collaborative French-Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing.

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons has revealed a surprising number of differences, suggesting that the structur ...

Aquaglyceroporin Aqp10, a protein channel for water and glycerol, selectively permeates urea and boric acid due to its unique structural features—report researchers from Japan. By comparing and ...