For anyone exercising and sweating a lot, it’s important to not just hydrate by drinking water regularly but to replenish your electrolytes, too. In the past couple years, I got back into ...

Instead, Neher and Sakmann used an extremely fine glass pipette filled with an electrolyte solution and carefully applied slight positive pressure as they approached the cell with the pipette tip.

Schematic representation of a Scanning Ion Conductance Microscope. The glass pipette is filled with an electrolyte solution and a microelectrode is inserted inside. As the pipette scans over the ...