Tiny ion channels are responsible for transporting potassium and sodium to our cells. In the process, ions must pass through a bottleneck, referred to…

The glutamate receptor AMPA was previously known for its lightning-fast transmission of excitation. All the more surprising, therefore, are the…

The transport of ions such as sodium, potassium and chloride in human cells is essential for survival. Professor Thomas Jentsch has been researching…

It is one of the big pharmacological questions: How do you get large functional biomolecules like proteins or antibodies into a living cell? Linking…

A mutation in the CLCN6 gene is associated with a novel, particularly severe neurodegenerative disorder. Scientists from the…

Given that phages are able to destroy bacteria, they are of particular interest to science. Basic researchers from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für…

It appears that autophagy protects our neurons in the brain, but evidently for entirely different reasons than previously assumed, as researchers from…