Like the skins of chameleons and octopuses, which respond to external stimuli by changing colors ... Woehl and colleagues in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering demonstrated ...

The senses of sight, hearing and touch receive physical stimuli; those of smell and taste, chemical stimuli. These latter senses have recently been the subject of numerous ingenious experiments ...

Within cell membranes, ion channel receptors typically activate in response to electrical, chemical or other specific stimuli, explains Feng Qin, Ph.D., professor of physiology and biophysics and ...

Different types of nociceptors can sense different types of pain, including mechanical stimuli (force or pressure), chemical stimuli, and temperature. In humans, pain-detecting cells can vary in size ...

In contrast to neurons and skeletal muscle cells, some excitable cells have ion channels that open in response to mechanical stimuli rather than chemical signals. These include the hair cells of ...

The Emergent Mechanisms in Biology of Robustness Integration and Organization Institute (EMBRIO) will determine how living systems integrate chemical and mechanical stimuli to develop responsive ...

This includes protein assemblies that remain intact under varying external mechanical and chemical stimuli, beetles that navigate using volatile celestial cues, and honeybee clusters that change their ...

Two of the five senses depend upon chemical stimuli rather than physical. The chemistry of the substances that these senses can detect and differentiate are important clues to their mechanism ...