Botox used to find new wrinkle in brain communication
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have used the popular anti-wrinkle agent Botox to discover a new and important role for a group of molecules that nerve cells use to quickly send messages. This novel role for the molecules, called SNARES, may be a missing piece that scientists have been searching for to fully understand how brain cells communicate under normal and disease conditions.