Research may lead to better treatments for depression and substance abuse

Published June 12, 2010

Research may lead to better treatments for depression and substance abuse
In what has been hailed as a breakthrough, scientists from Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College have outlined the molecular mechanism of membrane transport. The research shows how a protein transforms its shape to transport substances across the cell membrane in order to regulate transmission of the brain’s messages across the synaptic gap from one neuron to …