When triggered by an odor, rapid changes in membrane voltage and intracellular calcium ion levels occur in nematode olfactory neurons, causing membrane voltage sensors and calcium ion sensors to ...

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...

The typical job of the proteasome, the garbage disposal of the cell, is to grind down proteins into smaller bits and recycle some of those bits and parts. That's still the case, for the most part, but ...

Axons are the brain’s information highways, transporting cellular cargo, chemical signals, and electrical impulses to other cells. These “roads” are typically depicted as smooth and cylindrical, with ...

Schematic of an active cell membrane. In a typical active biological process, active proteins (shown in a variety of colors) in a cell membrane (shown in blue) interact with various biological ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...