Trans-synaptic nanocolumn. A new model of the molecular architecture at points of neuron-to-neuron contact in the brain, based on measuring the location of individual protein molecules at the sites where cell contact is made. Credit: Screen shot from video by Blanpied’s lab.
Cutting-edge technique images synaptic transmission for the 1st time. New research by scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has for the first time elucidated details about the architecture of this process. Synapses are very complicated molecular machines and are also tiny: only a few millionths of an inch across...
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