Nectins and Nectin-like (Necl) proteins are immunoglobulin-like adhesion molecules involved in cell–cell contact, synapse organization, and tissue ...

Schizophrenia has long been one of medicine’s most puzzling conditions, with genetics offering tantalizing clues but an ...

A new MIT study finds that somatostatin-expressing neurons follow a unique trajectory when forming connections in the brain’s visual cortex that may help establish the conditions needed for sensory ...

Representative cryo-electron microscopy image: a coloured image of the 3D structure of gephyrin, which was calculated from the data. A team of scientists from the University of Cologne’s Institute of ...

Summary: Researchers discovered that gephyrin, a key protein at inhibitory synapses, forms organized filaments that act as the structural basis for postsynaptic densities. This finding overturns ...

Gotcha! Scientists spot where, and possibly how, p-tau217 first appears in the brain. In a postmortem study of individuals spanning the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum, researchers led by Michiko Sekiya ...

What Triggered FINRA’s Action? The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has charged former executives of Synapse Brokerage, a unit tied to fintech firm Synapse Financial Technologies, ...

Abstract: Artificial synapse with bidirectional inhibitory plasticity is critical for neuromorphic engineering. However, conventional synaptic devices, such as memristors and transistors, typically ...