The insulin receptor (IR) is a prototypical receptor tyrosine kinase that orchestrates critical cellular processes, including metabolism, cell growth and differentiation. Activation of the IR involves ...

A new multi-pronged antibody design could help immune cells receive stronger activation signals against cancer. Researchers ...

Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.

Researchers at the NYU Pain Research Center have found a new receptor for nerve growth factor that plays an important role in pain signaling, even though it does not signal on its own, according to a ...

A genetic mutation passed from mother to children in families affected by schizophrenia has now been shown to completely ...

Nerve growth factor receptor TrkA (in green) and co-receptor NRP1 (in purple) are coexpressed in the same nerve cells in mice. Researchers at the NYU Pain Research Center have found a new receptor for ...

Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state ...

In a study published in Nature Immunology on January 6, a research team led by Prof. Qian Youcun from the Shanghai Institute ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a promising new way to bolster the body's immune system response to cancer.