Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

It may not look like much on the surface, but it has millions of tiny sense receptors underneath. There are all sorts of sense receptors down there with different jobs to do. Some can detect the ...

Our senses of smell and taste detect chemicals in the environment as they bind to receptors on the olfactory epithelium in the nose or on taste buds studding the mouth. From these two inputs, plus a ...

How do cells forming organs or repairing tissues know when to stop growing? Adhesion receptors act as molecular fingertips that sense the environment and then coordinate behaviors.

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions yet to come – this time how, by the mid-21st century, ...

Garrity: We next examined these neurons at the molecular level. We found they expressed three members of a family of invertebrate-specific sensory receptors called the IRs. These IRs turned out to be ...