Nobel laureate Brian Kobilka will speak at medical school's co...

Adrenaline has garnered considerable attention as an agent of excitement and thrills, as well as stress and abject terror. A Google search of 'adrenaline' generates more than 50 million hits. Newspaper and magazine articles employ adrenaline in ...

Topics: Delivery of Care, Health Costs, Hospitals, Insurance, Medicaid, Politics, Public Health, Quality, Health Reform Los Angeles Times: For A Dying Patient, A Prescription Of Silence In medical school, we were taught not to withhold information ...

Researchers Dingjie Wang and Garret Nelson from Arizona State University insert a lipid cubic phase (LCP) injector containing tiny crystals of G protein-coupled receptors into the sample chamber during an experiment at the Linac Coherent Light ...

According to a new Reader's Digest poll conducted in cooperation with The Wagner Group, topping Americans list of individuals they trust the most is … actor Tom Hanks. The Oscar-winning star of such films as Larry Crowne (which nobody saw), Angels ...

Researchers visualized a key step in how signals from outside the cell are muted within. The finding gives insight into the complex system that controls how all the cells in our bodies behave. This knowledge could have implications in the design of ...

Duke Forward is a hit in New York A sold-out crowd of Duke University alumni, parents and friends filled Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts when Duke Forward came to the city on Friday, April 26. The event, part of ...

There may be a sort of main power switch that could be tripped suggests a three-dimensional image of one of the proteins that serves as an on-off switch as it binds to receptors on the surface of a cell. These surface receptors are responsible for ...

Itchy eyes, scratchy throat, running nose--it's allergy season! What triggers these allergic reactions, and how do allergy medications work? The outer surface of many of our cells, including those in the airways, has a protein called the H1 ...

Mika Ono, The Scripps Research Institute and Emily Carlson, National Institutes of Health Studies are revealing GPCRs as complex machines, controlled by many inputs and producing many outputs. CREDIT: Courtesy of the GPCR Network, The Scripps ...