A research team led by Scripps Research Institute scientist Dr. Supriya Srinivasan has identified a brain hormone that appears to trigger fat burning in the gut. Model depicting the FLP-7/NPR-22 neuroendocrine axis that underlies the 5-HTergic control of body fat loss. In the nervous system, an integrated 5-HT and octopaminergic …
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A team of researchers at the University of Warwick, UK, has identified Connexin26 (Cx26) as a key molecule that reacts to carbon dioxide (CO2) in our bodies and activates breathing. The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. CO2-dependent dye loading of HeLa cells expressing …
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An international team of physicists, led by Prof. Chris Greene from Purdue University and Prof. Herwig Ott from the University of Kaiserslautern, has observed a butterfly Rydberg molecule, a weak pairing of two highly excitable atoms. Their work was published in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Nature Communications …
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