Picture a concert hall wired with thousands of microphones, but a third of them are switched off. The cables are run, the ...
Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for Advanced Pain Studies (TX, USA) and their colleagues have made a fundamental discovery about a key mechanism that enables nervous system ...
A team of scientists from the University of Cologne's Institute of Biochemistry has made a decisive discovery about the molecular basis of synapse formation in the central nervous system. They studied ...
This original animation illustrates that presynaptic neurons secrete VLK, which then phosphorylates the extracellular side of ephrin type-B receptor 2 (EphB2) extruding from the membranes of ...
A greater understanding of how synapses work may also find a role in identifying unexpected drug targets for specific diseases. Dr. Iain Robinson, Associate Professor in Neurosciences at Plymouth ...