Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

Muscle twitches fall into two main types. There’s myoclonus, where a whole muscle or group of muscles twitch or spasm. Then ...

What we see is sobering. In our simulations, electrodes can fracture during the deep freeze of a lunar night. Under direct ...

“The mostly night-time atrial fibrillation was shown to be caused by a mutation in a gene (KCND2), encoding a crucial component of a potassium ion channel (Kv4.2) in the heart." ...

Orphan Drug Designation applies to approximately 50,000 Patients who predominantly suffer from severe chronic pain due ...

A bottle of beverage spotted inside the car of Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee is drawing attention. Given that every ...

That leftover material from your fireplace might be more useful than you think. In winter, it can offer a surprising ...

Infectious agents can cause muscle twitching and spasms, too. The most commonly known is probably tetanus, which causes a phenomenon called lockjaw, where the neck and jaw muscles contract to the ...

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Demand for lithium is rising fast as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and grid-scale batteries ...

These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...