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

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

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

EM, researchers elucidated the structure of key receptors integral to fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the rat ...

Scientists have mapped the molecular structure of glutamate receptors in the cerebellum for the first time using ...

A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how cells responsible for hair growth perceive physical forces in their environment and utilize that information to regulate their growth, according to ...

Two new polyhydrides of calcium have been synthesized at high pressures and high temperatures and characterized by Raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Above ...

Although chemical agents have long been the primary method for influencing cellular behavior, mechanical forces also play an important role in many cellular processes. Most mechanical forces are ...