Recently, researchers developed a non-invasive method combining electrical impedance tomography and extracellular voltage activation to evaluate drug effects on ion channels. The resulting printed ...

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 ...

Ion channels in the membrane vesicles that mediate intracellular protein transport play a crucial role in cell physiology. A method now allows them to be studied with greater specificity than ever ...

Scientists applied molecular dynamics simulations to visualize how potassium ions pass through a potassium ion channel at atomic resolution for the first time. (Nanowerk News) The patch clamp ...

Flip-the-Tip Technology Uses Standard Glass Pipettes to Achieve Higher Throughput in Ion Channel Screening The pharmaceutical industry has widely recognized patch clamping as the “gold standard” to ...

The beating of a heart, the ability to learn and remember, and the movement of a sperm cell's tail all have at least one thing in common: They depend on the function of ion channels, the membrane ...

An automated system for measuring the electrical properties of single cells can operate for hours without human input. Developed by the Precision Biosystems Laboratory at Georgia Institute of ...

Ion channels in the membrane vesicles that mediate intracellular protein transport play a crucial role in cell physiology. A method developed by an Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich team ...