Taste, pain, or response to stress -- nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Researchers have uncovered the ...
A research team of the University Medical Center Mainz has succeeded in observing for the first time how G protein-coupled ...
Many people are familiar with histamine, a biological molecule that serves as a key driver of allergic reactions and other ...
The gray portion of this schematic represents a nanodisc, where for the first time researchers were able to replicate the native membrane environment (red dots) of a T-cell receptor (cyan). One of the ...
Blockbuster anti-obesity drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have become household names in the past few years. They work by activating the glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) to stimulate insulin ...
This article and associated images are based on a poster originally authored by Alex Chenchik, Lester Kobzik, Tianbing Liu, Dongfang Hu, Kitt Paraiso, Khadija Ghias, and Paul Diehl and presented at ...