Ion transport is the movement of ions across a membrane, passively through ion channels or actively through ion pumps such as symporters and antiporters.

Researchers have built organic electrochemical transistors around biomimetic supramolecular ion channels, achieving microsecond responses, month-long stability in physiological fluids, and real-time ...

Researchers at Dalian Maritime University show that serpentine liquid cooling plates with sine-wave channels and ...

Ion channels are attractive drug targets due to their importance in health and disease, but finding ways to target a specific ion channel selectively is a major challenge. Now, researchers at Weill ...

Materials scientists have extensively studied fast ion permeation in nanofluidic channels in the past decades due to their potential within filtration technologies and osmotic energy harvesting. While ...

Certain cells, commonly called excitable cells, are unique because of their ability to generate electrical signals. Although several types of excitable cells exist — including neurons, muscle cells, ...

A member of an important class of ion channel proteins can transiently rearrange itself into a larger structure with dramatically altered properties, according to a new study. The discovery is a ...

A new understanding of how drugs are taken in by cells could impact the way drugs are administered to patients. In an Aug. 30 study published in Nature that details structural changes of the Transient ...

The mechanosensitive Piezo channels regulate the terminal differentiation of odontoblasts into dentin-forming cells by ...

When a scrappy team of scientists joined forces in the late 1990s, they sought to identify genetic mutations that could have an outsized impact on the treatment of human disease. At the time, that ...

Therapeutically targeting ion channels in nociceptor neurons may be a promising strategy to manage osteoarthritis pain, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Cell Reports. Paul ...