This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...

Understanding the pathogenesis of kidney stones has become increasingly important, as their prevalence continues to rise ...

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Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

White Dwarf Discovery Could Transform How Scientists Measure the Universe In A Nutshell Astronomers found direct evidence ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

Cornell researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living ...

How do we determine how healthy our food is? We know now that our nutrition shouldn't just be measured in calories, or even ...

Emerging monolayer molecular crystals (MMCs) have become prosperous in recent decades due to their numerous advantages. First, downsizing the active layer thickness to monolayer in organic ...

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel ...

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging" (MBExC) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel increases ...