Now, MIT researchers have developed wearable devices that may be able to perform similar functions for individual cells inside the body. These battery-free, subcellular-sized devices, made of a soft ...

Abstract: Historically, in vitro cardiac function assays for drug screening have predominantly utilized electrophysiological techniques, employing electrodes and fluorescence microscopy. However, the ...

It plays an important role in mood regulation, movement, and how humans experience pleasure and pain. Dopamine binds to receptors on neurons in various brain regions where it performs different ...

Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that plays a crucial role in cognitive function, memory retention, and muscle control. Whether you’re looking to enhance your mental clarity, focus ...

We further report the functional characterization in flies of one family of these genes, encoding for nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAchR ... role for nAchR signaling in maintaining intestinal ...

Odorants binding to olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) trigger bursts of action potentials, providing the brain with its only experience of the olfactory environment. Our recordings made in vivo from ...