Scientists have enlisted the exotic properties of graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of carbon, to function like the film of an incredibly sensitive camera system in visually mapping tiny electric ...

The design of new calcium channels, built bottom-up from scratch, was reported last week in Nature. "Biochemists have been studying ion channels for decades and debating about how they work for almost ...

Prokaryotic biofilms represent highly organised microbial communities in which cells are embedded within a self-produced matrix and adhere to surfaces ranging from living tissue to industrial ...

A new study published in Science Advances reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals. This elaborate example of ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right side can, after a turn, become a headwind. To stay on course, the fly's ...

Cerebral blood delivery depends on mechanisms such as electrical signaling, which propagates through capillary networks to upstream arterioles to deliver blood, and calcium signaling, which fine-tunes ...

Illustration of representative electrical signalling mechanisms in the human body spanning multiple length scales. Several biological tissues and biomolecules, including bone, cornea, structural ...

Researchers developed a soft, conductive hydrogel that binds and releases growth factors via electrical signals, opening new paths for brain implants and bioelectronic medicine. (Nanowerk News) Many ...

Pretein design researcher Yulai Liu holds an enlarged 3D printed model from his team's efforts to design functioning calcium channels entirely from scratch. He is standing in David Baker's lab at the ...