Now, after years of experimenting with common bean plants in the lab and in the agricultural fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, ...

Researchers found a gut-related receptor tied to heart damage from sleep apnea, offering a potential new treatment target.

Nuclear receptors are receptors that bind to a ligand that has crossed the cell membrane, after which the ligand-bound receptor binds to DNA to regulate gene expression. These receptors are key ...

Researchers have discovered that insects' sense of smell evolved from ancient taste genes, rewriting evolutionary history.

For roughly 30 years, biology students have learned the same tidy diagram of the inside of the nose: four broad zones, each ...

A research team of the University Medical Center Mainz has succeeded in observing for the first time how G protein-coupled receptors in living cells actually respond to activating substances. The ...

Our noses can effortlessly distinguish the aroma of coffee from the tang of gasoline, yet how they do it has long been a mystery. In a study that appears Oct. 30 in Nature, scientists at Duke ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Researchers at the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals have identified a new class of ...

All cells, whether big or small, short or long, rely on proteins to function properly. In most cells, transporting these proteins is relatively simple. Neurons in the brain, however, face a ...

For the first time, scientists using cryo-electron microscopy have discovered the structure and shape of key receptors connecting neurons in the brain's cerebellum, which is located behind the ...

Some touching research took the 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. David Julius of the University of California, San Francisco and Ardem Patapoutian of the Scripps Research Institute in La ...