Slipping a note to a neighbour: the cellular way

How cells send messages to each other

02-Jul-2024 - Researchers have gained new knowledge of how drugs bind to connexin molecules. These molecules form channels that allow neighbouring cells to send direct messages to one another. Dysfunctions of these channels are involved in neurological and cardiac diseases. The new understanding of how drugs ...

Bringing information into the cell

30-Apr-2019 - Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have elucidated an important part of a siganalling pathway that transmits information through the cell membrane into the interior of a cell. This siganalling pathway is of great significance for all mammals, since it is involved in various important ...