Following a dry summer, gardeners will be even keener than usual to lavish composts, manures and other bulky organic matter on their garden to feed soil and plants and to boost moisture-holding ...

Today it seems self-evident that neurons make their electrical signals by opening gates of water-filled pores (ion channels) in the plasma membrane. But it was not always so. Remarkably, pore theory ...

There are precious few Black Friday turntable deals around as we hurtle towards the big day – that's this Friday, 28th November – but I think I've found the best one yet. We're always on the lookout ...

(The Center Square) – An Illinois computer problem that has led to the diversity decertifications of numerous businesses owned by minorities and women in the past 15 months is financially disastrous ...

Ligand-gated ion channels are ion channels that are opened or closed (gated) by ligands, generally small molecules such as the second messenger cAMP and neurotransmitters. Ligand-gated ion channels ...