For the first time, researchers identified the function of the CASKIN2 protein, which plays a key role in precise signal ...

In the 1950s, advances in microscopy techniques allowed scientists to visualize synaptic communication between two brain cells for the first time. 1,2 However, many details beyond the general synapse ...

Transmission across a synapse (IMAGE) Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University Caption When an electrical signal arrives at the presynaptic terminal, neurotransmitters ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to show how proteins called "chaperones" are vital in ensuring that neurons can transmit signals to one another. When ...