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Scientists see the light: How vision sends its message to the brain
Scientists have known for more than 200 years that vision begins with a series of chemical reactions when light strikes the retina, but the specific chemical processes have largely been a mystery. A team of researchers from ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 29, 2009 |
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How heroin works: Imaging opioid receptors in the brain
(Phys.org) -- Researchers and doctors have gleaned new clues to the molecular mechanisms behind some of the most addictive substances in the world, thanks to two new studies that uncovered the structures of ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Navigating the neurochemical space by computer-aided molecular design
Pharmaceutical scientists from VU University Amsterdam and colleagues from the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna have gained new insights into the molecular basis of the GABAA receptors, ...
Apr 06, 2012 |
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Copper + love chemical = big sulfur stink
When Hiroaki Matsunami, Ph.D., at Duke set out to study a chemical in male mouse urine called MTMT that attracts female mice, he didn't think he would stumble into a new field of study.
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Scientists pinpoint shape-shifting mechanism critical to protein signaling
In a joint study, scientists from the California and Florida campuses of The Scripps Research Institute have shown that changes in a protein's structure can change its signaling function and they have pinpointed ...
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Coffee could offer key ingredient for new treatments for Parkinson's disease
Scientists from Heptares Therapeutics have used Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, to understand the structure of a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease and other neurological ...
Sep 05, 2011 |
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How receptors talk to G proteins
(PhysOrg.com) -- The mechanism by which cells respond to stimuli and trigger hormonal responses, as well as the senses of sight, smell, and taste, has for the first time been brought into focus with the help ...
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Grafting olfactory receptors onto nanotubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Penn researchers have helped develop a nanotech device that combines carbon nanotubes with olfactory receptor proteins, the cell components in the nose that detect odors.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Histamine H1 receptor breakthrough heralds improved allergy treatments
New 3D picture of human membrane protein enables development of targeted anti-histamines without side-effects.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 23, 2011 |
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New clues for asthma treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- New information that could help in the fight against asthma has been obtained by an international collaboration of scientists utilizing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Light-sensing receptor plays role in temperature sensation: study
A light-sensing receptor that's packed inside the eye's photoreceptor cells has an altogether surprising role in cells elsewhere in the body, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered. Using fruit flies, they showed that this ...
Mar 10, 2011 |
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