Dr. Kaneez Fatima Shad knows that the “Patch Clamp” method needs skills and patience. It takes the whole day to craft only one sample and even a small leak could alter the results drastically.

Scientists applied molecular dynamics simulations to visualize how potassium ions pass through a potassium ion channel at atomic resolution for the first time. (Nanowerk News) The patch clamp ...

Flip-the-Tip Technology Uses Standard Glass Pipettes to Achieve Higher Throughput in Ion Channel Screening The pharmaceutical industry has widely recognized patch clamping as the “gold standard” to ...

An automated system for measuring the electrical properties of single cells can operate for hours without human input. Developed by the Precision Biosystems Laboratory at Georgia Institute of ...

Recently, researchers developed a non-invasive method combining electrical impedance tomography and extracellular voltage activation to evaluate drug effects on ion channels. The resulting printed ...

Ion channels in the membrane vesicles that mediate intracellular protein transport play a crucial role in cell physiology. A method now allows them to be studied with greater specificity than ever ...