The field of neurotrauma and epilepsy research has increasingly highlighted the pivotal influence of ion channels in the transition from traumatic brain ...

When a scrappy team of scientists joined forces in the late 1990s, they sought to identify genetic mutations that could have an outsized impact on the treatment of human disease. At the time, that ...

Unlike conventional computing hardware, biological computation occurs in wet, salty environments through carefully-controlled chemical and ionic transport between neurons. Their thin cellular ...

They are literally channels for communication: Pore-forming proteins in living cells, termed ion channels, are embedded in the outer membrane of almost all cell types and play a crucial role in the ...

More is not necessarily better, as was previously examined in an article about the pitfalls of high-throughput screening (GEN, March 15, 2006, pg. 24), not the least of which is the terabytes of ...

Ion channels enable passive ion flow towards equilibrium, which is driven by ion concentration differences across the membrane and the membrane potential (the difference electric potential between the ...

Ion channels play a crucial role in many cellular processes, including neuronal communication, muscle contraction or cell proliferation. Most multi subunit ion channels exist in two functional states, ...

Ion channels are attractive drug targets due to their importance in health and disease, but finding ways to target a specific ion channel selectively is a major challenge. Now, researchers have ...

Variants of the KCNC1 gene impact K v 3.1 potassium channel function, resulting in neurodevelopmental disorders which can include progressive myoclonic epilepsy (PME) and developmental epileptic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel SK ion channel inhibitor more often converted atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm compared with placebo.