New research combines two powerful imaging techniques to study the complete structure of a common aGPCR, including how its long and complex extracellular region interacts with the transmembrane region ...

The 'fight or flight' hormone adrenaline — which is produced during times of stress — is an agonist of the β 2-adrenergic receptor (β ... prevent the molecular contacts that enable protein ...

But what these receptors actually consisted of and how they worked remained obscured for most of the 20th Century. Cells in our body are constantly exposed to a variety of chemical signals ...