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Image showing S5 mutations disrupt RyR1 channel function, influencing both channel activity and gating mechanisms. This impacts the release of calcium and affects muscle contractions, leading to severe muscle diseases such as malignant hyperthermia and central core disease.
Health

How mutations affect muscle diseases

Dr. Prajakta Banik

They discovered that changes in S5 can affect the channel's work, leading to different muscle diseases, like (MH) and (CCD).

cell membranes
Biology

New proteins control cell membranes

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Scientists at Kyoto University have discovered how cells control phospholipid distribution in their membranes.

Taking blood in laboratory
Health

Rapid blood clotting with porous xerogel dressing

Dr. Prajakta Banik

A porous xerogel dressing with silica nanoparticles and calcium that plays a crucial role in helping blood clot quickly.

Active nerve cells
Neuroscience

Quick neuron tracking of psychedelic effects

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Researchers at University of California Davis have developed a fast, noninvasive tool called Ca2+-activated Split-TurboID (CaST) to track which neurons and biomolecules are activated...

Sport bodybuilding fitness and people concept close up of young man with dumbbells flexing muscles over black background and diagram charts
Health

Rare muscle diseases created by lab-grown muscles

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Engineered human muscle model shows calcium's role in dysferlinopathy.

Serious sporty man stretching leg outdoors
Health

New findings on warming-up and muscle performance

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Myosin and tropomyosin-troponin's role in muscle heat activation.

3D illustration mockup of the human organ systems circulatory digestive red and white bloodcells
Health

Preventing coronary artery disease through gene discoveries

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Genome-wide study uncovers coronary artery calcification insights.

Image showing blood pressure sensor
Health

First video of Nobel ‘pressure sensors’ in action at Imperial

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Precise imaging of piezo1 activity using genEPi across scales.

Image showing plants
Plants

Plants can sense when something touches them and stops

Pranjal Malewar

Even without nerves, plants can sense when something touches them and when it lets go.

Image showing stem cell.
Science

How stem cells organize cellular replacements

Vidya Nagalwade

Stem cells communicate with each other to replace lost cells.

Research conceptual diagram
Science

Scientists identified the regulation mechanism of calcium channels

Pranjal Malewar

A new clue to the development of substances for treating mental and neurological diseases.

How milk is transported through the mammary network?
Science

How milk is transported through the mammary network?

Amit Malewar

A unique collaboration between neuroscience and mammary biology.

Calcium plays a key role in primary root development
Science

Calcium plays a key role in primary root development

Amit Malewar

Key role for calcium release in root development.

Scientists catch heartbeat ‘molecular switch’ in action A single heart muscle cell (at x2000 magnification) : the red calcium indicator lines up precisely between the green stripes, which mark where the muscles’ contractive machinery is anchored. In every heartbeat, the distance between the green bands (which are just 2 micrometres apart, or about 1/40 the thickness of a human hair) reduces by just 10%, so all heart muscle cells need to contract together to pump blood – normal calcium activity is essential for this synchronization (Image credit: Paul Robinson).
Science

Visualising the flow of calcium that makes the heart beat

Pranjal Malewar

Scientists at Oxford University have devised a new method that uses protein originally found in marine corals to uncover the effects of genetic errors...

A Sensor Molecule to Visualize Signals from Brain and Heart
Technology

A Sensor Molecule to Visualize Signals from Brain and Heart

Amit Malewar

The concentration of calcium in and around cells monitors the key processes in the body. Now, scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in...

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