Cell Biology

Humans Descended From Cells Without Nuclei Or Walls

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, December 6th, 2001

Research on components of the brain's electrical signaling system has answered a basic question about our human evolution, confirming scientific belief that we two-legged, computer-using creatures are descended from prokaryotes - cellular organisms so primitive and simple that they exist without nuclei or cell walls.

The study, led by Zhe Lu, MD, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine were published in the journal Nature.

The research by Lu and his colleagues focused on the structure and function of molecules called potassium channels, which are essential to how the...

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