Enzymes are the engines of life − machine learning tools could help scientists design new ones to tackle disease and climate change
Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the ...
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Powerful visualization technologies offer new insight into understanding muscle contraction in humans
The results featured the first visualizations of the 3-D structure of the muscle acetylcholine receptor. Since human tissue is difficult to obtain for such muscle contraction studies, the ...
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Myasthenia Gravis
Normally when impulses travel down the nerve, the nerve endings release a neurotransmitter substance called acetylcholine, which travels through the short neuromuscular junction and results in the ...
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Building a world-class centre for brain science
Jing’s recent paper in Nature Methods presented a brain sensor that precisely measures acetylcholine, one of the chief neurotransmitters in control of arousal, attention, muscle contraction ...
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Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes
where nerve impulses are transmitted to initiate muscle contraction. Cholinesterase Inhibitors: Medications that prevent the breakdown of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter, thereby enhancing ...