Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

Scientists have revealed the secret to the structural integrity of tiny particles that transport cargo from cell to cell through blood vessels and bodily fluids: special proteins that keep their ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

Cells send electrical impulses throughout the body, but electrophysiologists struggled to tune into these signals until the patch clamp technique was developed. Although biophysicist Bernard Katz from ...

The interplay between ion channels and T cell immunology has emerged as a pivotal area in both basic and translational research. Ion channels, particularly voltage‐gated potassium channels such as Kv1 ...

Unlike conventional computing hardware, biological computation occurs in wet, salty environments through carefully-controlled chemical and ionic transport between neurons. Their thin cellular ...

Researchers have determined that condensates are electrically charged droplets that can induce voltage changes across the ...

They are literally channels for communication: Pore-forming proteins in living cells, termed ion channels, are embedded in the outer membrane of almost all cell types and play a crucial role in the ...

Schematic of UV-W process. (a) Schematic of UV-W process. (b) Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy of the PEI-IIM, PEI-ICM with UV-W process 20 h and 40 h. (c) Ion permeation and selectivity ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...