Ion channels are involved in every thought ... and conducts it near the diffusion limit. The signature sequence has been used as a key to find potassium channels even in bacteria.

When acetylcholine binds to the receptors on a skeletal muscle cell, ion channels in that cell open, and this launches a sequence of events that results in contraction of the cell. In contrast to ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The elusiveness of single ion channels intrigued researchers for another quarter of a century. In his youth, Erwin Neher, now a biophysicist at ...

For their study, the research teams worked with tobacco plants that carry ion channels that can be specifically switched on ...

The researchers have developed an innovative molecule called azo-menthol, which is able to precisely control TRPM8 channels using light, as they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie. "With azo ...