The discovery opens up opportunities to study the therapeutic properties of ibogaine and related compounds. Ibogaine, a ...

Markita Landry is the first to admit that the two applications her research addresses – imaging brain chemistry and delivering genetic material into plants – are rather divergent.

When Xiao Wang applied to faculty jobs, many of the institutions where she interviewed thought her research proposal - to ...

Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

Interrupting signals exchanged between tumors and the nervous system could become a critical pillar of cancer care ...

Scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally self-organize into crystalline supramolecular networks. This significant discovery could ...

Researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a large ...

Researchers have identified the mitochondrial calcium uniporter as a critical protein in the strengthening of synaptic ...

New research uses AI to engineer enzymes with intricate active sites, expanding the possibilities for synthetic biocatalysts.

Visio in Microsoft 365 is a superb tool for creating custom diagrams to illustrate concepts that are difficult to explain through text. Here’s how to use it. It’s often much easier to convey ...

Often known as the central science, it is a creative discipline chiefly concerned with atomic and molecular structure and its change, for instance through chemical reactions. A tricoordinate ...

Synaptic plasticity is the biological process by which specific patterns of synaptic activity result in changes in synaptic strength and is thought to contribute to learning and memory. Both pre ...