The researchers identified the structure of this machine, the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), and 50 years since its discovery, have shown how it operates like the lock on a canal to transport ...

Scientists say they have discovered how a group of proteins linked to Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis act as 'guardians' of mitochondria, small organelles, or subunits, within a ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A comprehensive wiring diagram and functional map of a mouse brain's visual cortex, the largest to date, has been created from a cubic millimeter of tissue. This ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex ...

This allosteric mechanoenzyme undergoes a series of conformational changes associated with adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis and actin binding, aka the motor cycle, which result in the ...

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And, like a turbine, the protein synthesizes energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) as it spins, explained Nick Lane, a professor of evolutionary biochemistry at University College ...

Though the exact mechanism of action is unclear, it is believed that in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome, diazoxide choline reduces hyperphagia through activation of the adenosine triphosphate ...