Focusing On The Cellular Machinery That Enables Neurons To Fire

If you ever had a set of Micronauts — toy robots with removable body parts — you probably had fun swapping their heads, imagining how it would affect their behavior. Scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health have been performing similar experiments on ion channels — pores in our nerve cells — to sort out the channels’ key functional parts. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Biology on November 18th, 2007