Fluoride protects our teeth against cavity-causing bacteria by making our teeth stronger. But what if we could find a way to trap fluoride ions (the negatively charged form of the chemical element ...

Voltage-gated sodium channels (Navs) play essential roles in excitable tissues, with their activation and opening resulting in the initial phase of the action potential. The cycling of Navs through ...

Researchers describe, for the first time, the structure of a smell-receptor protein common among insects. Its inner architecture illuminates how insects evolved to detect an amazing diversity of odors ...

A member of an important class of ion channel proteins can transiently rearrange itself into a larger structure with dramatically altered properties, according to a new study. The discovery is a ...

Six structures exhibited by the rotating sodium ion pump were reconstructed in 3D using cryo-electron microscopy. This analysis revealed that (1) the rotor exhibits non-uniform rotation behavior due ...

TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sosei Group Corporation ("the Company"; TSE: 4565) announces it will apply its world-leading structure-based drug design (SBDD) expertise and ...

There are many processes at work during the charging and discharging of a lithium-ion battery, some of which are still not fully understood despite the technology’s growing prevalence. Observing such ...

Sodium-ion batteries stand out because sodium is abundant and inexpensive, yet their commercialization is hindered by the lack of high-performance anode materials. Hard carbon is widely regarded as ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Lithium-ion batteries, with their high energy density and long lifetimes, have dominated the rechargeable battery market for decades. However, lithium's scarcity and rising cost ...

A member of an important class of ion channel proteins can transiently rearrange itself into a larger structure with dramatically altered properties, according to a study led by researchers at Weill ...

CAMBRIDGE, England & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metrion Biosciences Limited (“Metrion”), the specialist ion channel CRO and drug discovery company and Sosei Group Corporation (“the Company”; TSE: 4565), ...