The Nobel laureate was the first to identify an enzyme moving material across the cell membrane. In this webinar, Ed Boyden and Jerzy Szablowski will talk about how synthetic biology can help develop ...

Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, ...

Successful test in breast cancer patients: the active agent digoxin, a cardiac medication, dissolves clusters of circulating breast cancer cells in the blood, thus reducing the risk of metastases ...

Water and wastewater superintendent Bill Briggs appeared before council to explain the problem. Briggs reiterated that the ...

Digoxin blocks the sodium/potassium ATPase pump. The mechanism by which this decreases AV conduction is not clear but is perhaps due to increased vagal tone. Intracellular calcium within the ...

This diagram shows molecules moving from area of low concentration to area of high concentration with energy: The proteins pump sodium out of the cells and potassium into the cells. This helps ...