Since the discovery of long-term potentiation (LTP) in 1973, thousands of papers have been
published on this intriguing phenomenon, which provides a compelling cellular model for …

The interior of a living cell is a crowded, heterogenuous, fluctuating environment. Hence, a
major challenge in modeling intracellular transport is to analyze stochastic processes within …

This review introduces quantum dots (QDs) and explores their properties, synthesis,
applications, delivery systems in biology, and their toxicity. QDs are one of the first …

One of the major challenges in modern biology is to understand how the molecular
components of a living cell operate in a highly noisy environment. What are the specific …

Biomedicine and cell and molecular biology require powerful imaging techniques of the
single molecule scale to the whole organism, either for fundamental science or diagnosis …

The number and subunit composition of synaptic N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs)
are not static, but change in a cell-and synapse-specific manner during development and in …

Cholesterol is essential for neuronal physiology, both during development and in the adult
life: as a major component of cell membranes and precursor of steroid hormones, it …

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are nanometer-sized fluorescent probes suitable for
advanced biological imaging. We used QDs to track individual glycine receptors (GlyRs) and …

Excitatory (glutamatergic) synapses in the mammalian brain are usually situated on dendritic
spines, a postsynaptic microcompartment that also harbors organelles involved in protein …

AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs) are responsible for a variety of processes in the
mammalian brain including fast excitatory neurotransmission, postsynaptic plasticity, or …