When neuroscientists analyzed the exact properties of nerve connections in the brain, they made a startling observation: At a key connection, or synapse, messages are sent against the usual stream of ...
(Nanowerk News) The Tissue Electronics laboratory coordinated by Francesca Santoro of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology-IIT) in Naples (Italy), in collaboration with ...
How do we think, feel, remember, or move? It all depends on transmission of chemical signals in the brain, carried and released by molecular containers called vesicles. In a new study, researchers ...
Synaptic changes lie at the nexus of many neurodegenerative diseases, underpinning cognitive decline. However, it has been hard to get a handle on exactly how these tiny structures change in disease, ...
Neurexin proteins lie in the presynapse and pentraxins in the post, and never the twain shall meet. But what if they did? By designing a small protein that binds to both, researchers in Japan, Germany ...
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