Scientists have long understood that parts of cells, called organelles, evolved to have certain shapes and sizes because their forms are closely related to how they function. Now, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a bacteria-based tool to test whether, as the axiom goes, form follows function.
Walls, co-director of the university's Center for Indigenous Health, will receive a $250,000 grant to further her community-based work improving the health and well-being of native communities
Scientists describe how glutamate signaling works in the brain to enable neuronal communication and how glutamate is released from neural synapses after the neuron fires.