New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Prion diseases are fatal degenerative diseases of the brain. They are associated ... Topological confinement by a membrane anchor suppresses phase separation into protein aggregates: Implications ...

The answer lies in a membrane structure called myelin. All information both to and from the body must be coordinated and transmitted simultaneously and very quickly. The brain itself requires ...

Carbonell, W. S., Ansorge, O., Sibson, N. & Muschel, R. The vascular basement membrane as “soil” in brain metastasis. PLoS One 4, e5857 (2009). An assumption ...

A research team has now used new in vitro and cell culture models to show that a lipid anchor on the outer membrane of nerve ... of prion diseases of the brain. Protein aggregation is typical ...