Drug discovery is shifting from static snapshots to moving pictures. Instead of inferring how medicines work from end results ...

A research team of the University Medical Center Mainz has succeeded in observing for the first time how G protein-coupled ...

The novel biosensor technology used in this study can also be transferred to other so-called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which act as crucial “signal receivers” in our cells and are of major ...

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

About one-third of all drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration target the largest family of cell membrane receptors called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs are indispensable for ...

The gray portion of this schematic represents a nanodisc, where for the first time researchers were able to replicate the native membrane environment (red dots) of a T-cell receptor (cyan). One of the ...

Scientists at École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), and at UNIL-CHUV, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL) have developed a computational method to create ...

Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) causes cellular damage and alters thyroid gland function by humoral and cell-mediated mechanisms. Cellular damage occurs when sensitized T-lymphocytes and/or ...

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