Peter H. Seeburg (Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg): "In our brain, nerve cells communicate by chemical transmission at specialized structures termed synapses. Most excitatory ...

Journal reference: Kaizuka, T., et al. (2024) FAM81A is a postsynaptic protein that regulates the condensation of postsynaptic proteins via liquid–liquid phase separation.

Long-term potentiation is thought to be the physiological mechanism behind learning. Since scientists think the main way the brain processes and stores information is through these long-term changes ...

This new understanding of membrane behavior could shift how scientists think about the role of internal membrane viscosity in cellular processes and have important implications for interpreting ...