Expanding drug development horizons: Receptor behaviors observed in living cell membranes
Monday, February 7, 2011 - 11:02
in Biology & Nature
Unprecedented single molecule imaging movies of living cell membranes, taken by a research team based at Kyoto University and the University of New Mexico, have clarified a decades-old enigma surrounding receptor molecule behaviors. The results, appearing in the latest issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, promise to open the door to new possibilities for drug development.