The beating of a heart, the ability to learn and remember, and the movement of a sperm cell's tail all have at least one thing in common: They depend on the function of ion channels, the membrane ...

The design of new calcium channels, built bottom-up from scratch, was reported last week in Nature. "Biochemists have been studying ion channels for decades and debating about how they work for almost ...

Maintenance of cardiac rhythm and pain sensation require the flow of ions across the membranes of all cells. Ion channels, which facilitate this movement, are protein assemblies that penetrate the ...

A tiny antibody component could fundamentally transform the treatment of cystic fibrosis: For the first time, researchers ...

Every year, sepsis kills roughly 11 million people worldwide, more than lung cancer and heart attacks combined. Despite ...