“Such antibodies offer a novel, more selective and thus safer approach for treating ion-channel-related diseases,” he added. Antibodies are also more versatile than small mol-ecules—they can ...

Considering their ubiquity, it seems safe to predict that ion channel mutations will be found to be involved in many diseases. The evolution of the lipid cell membrane solved one problem and ...

How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes. In a new study, University of Iowa ...

Scientists have revealed the secret to the structural integrity of tiny particles that transport cargo from cell to cell ...

Our laboratory uses a combination of structural biology and biophysical techniques to discover how ion channels and membrane-embedded enzymes function at the atomic level. The proteins we study are ...

Dr. Rasband's team is discovering the functional organization of axons in health as well as disease or injury. The generation, propagation, and modulation of electrical signals in the nervous system ...

Scientists have revealed the secret to the structural integrity of tiny particles that transport cargo from cell to cell through blood vessels and bodily fluids: special proteins that keep their ...

This makes them promising targets for the development of new drugs to combat cancer, metabolic diseases, inflammations, and more. Researchers have been studying TRPM8 ion channels in order to ...