This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

A sophisticated molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures the accurate assembly of genetic information from the genome into ...

The new research reveals a novel mechanism for signal transmission in brain cells and helps answer an open question in neuroscience about how intracellular signals travel over long distances in ...

For each structural strain of tau fibrils, they identified amino acids without which the strain cannot form its signature ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy and AI, researchers at the University of Missouri have mapped ApoB100, a key protein in LDL ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) — commonly known as bad cholesterol — have long been on scientists’ radar as a major ...