UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids—the building blocks of ...

UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - ...

Scientists have designed compounds that hit the same key receptor that LSD activates without causing hallucinations. A single dose produced powerful antidepressant and antianxiety effects in mice that ...

Breaking a longstanding impasse in our understanding of olfaction, scientists at UC San Francisco have created the first molecular-level, 3D picture of how an odor molecule activates a human odorant ...

Our sense of smell seems to be the most complicated, and as such it’s the least understood. To help shed some light on the system, researchers at Rockefeller University have taken the first ...

A genetic mutation passed from mother to children in families affected by schizophrenia has now been shown to completely ...

Many pharmaceuticals work by targeting what are known as ''G-protein-coupled receptors''. In a new study, scientists describe how they have been able to predict how special molecules that can be used ...

The human P2X4 receptor plays an important role in chronic pain, inflammation and some types of cancer. Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) have now discovered ...

The first-ever molecular images of an olfactory receptor at work answer decades-old questions about odor recognition. All senses must reckon with the richness of the world, but nothing matches the ...