A nasal spray containing vesicles naturally released by cells may work against Alzheimer's. This is the promise of a study ...

Solute carriers (SLCs) are specialized transport proteins that control the movement of nutrients, ions and neurotransmitters across cell membranes and are essential for brain metabolism and neuronal ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

A comprehensive review of solute carrier transporters argues that the 464-strong SLC protein family represents a largely ...

Scientists from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and St. Jude Children's ...

SLCs act as both gatekeepers and workhorses at cell membranes. They determine what enters the cell and when: sugars that provide energy, amino acids ...

Solute carriers (SLCs) are specialized transport proteins that control the movement of nutrients, ions and neurotransmitters ...

Researchers have been elucidating the structures of complex molecules for more than 100 years using a variety of techniques.

For over 60 years, scientists have debated a basic structural question about cone photoreceptors, the cells that let vertebrates see color: are their light-sensing disk membranes closed off inside the ...

In trials EPFL applied the technique to fixed cells and live mitochondria. Results showed that "the method results an image resolution improvement of up to twofold, resolving structures around 160–170 ...

When there isn’t space for recovery, performance declines. Yet for busy executives, it’s often the first thing to be ...

Explore the preclinical research catching our eye in September 2026, from siRNA and in vivo CRISPR to targeted protein ...