In a noteworthy advancement, Group1 has launched the world’s first Potassium-ion battery that has been designed within the ...

Nerve cells are the information carriers in our brain. When transferring signals, they change their electrical charge by ...

In 2004, a research group at Peking University First Hospital discovered a mutation in the gene coding for a sodium-channel ...

But in March 21 Nature, Emer Reeves and colleagues from University College London show that the killing activity of neutrophils works through activation of proteases by potassium ions (Nature 2002, ...

Crystallization of a voltage-gated K + channel has not yet been achieved. Figure 4: Three ions in the potassium channel. From the medical point of view, the story is just beginning. Considering ...

Molecular dynamics simulations illuminated the physical interactions driving this performance, such as the strong electrostatic attractions between potassium ions and the polyurethane matrix.

Take the electrolyte potassium, for example. It is the most abundant positively charged ion inside cells, but its concentration is 30-fold lower in the extracellular environment. "Suddenly an ...