Unlocking the Mechanisms of Exocytosis

[fafalone]

Nanotechweb has an article describing a nanofabricated amperometrical detector that Cornell researchers are using to explore the process by which chemicals such as neurotransmitters are excreted from cells.

 

The original paper appears in Nanotechnology, June 2002

 

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So basically they are trying to determine how exactly a vesicle fuses with the membrane?

[fafalone]

Yeah, the detector is sensitive enough to observe a single fusion pore opening.