What if scientists could develop an opioid-based painkiller that is not addictive and has limited side effects?
That is possible based on new findings by an international team of scientists that included contributions from top researchers at the USC Michelson...
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have successfully developed a method to grow hairy skin from mouse pluripotent stem cells--a discovery that could lead to new approaches to model disease and new therapies for the treatment of skin...
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have used precision editing of the bacterial populations in the gut to prevent or reduce the severity of inflammation in a mouse model of colitis.
The potential strategy - which targets metabolic pathways that are...
Humans possess six forms of the protein actin, which perform essential functions in the body. Two in particular, β-actin and γ-actin, are nearly identical, only differing by four amino acids. Yet these near-twin proteins carry out distinct roles. A...
Scientists have shown how alcohol damages DNA in stem cells, helping to explain why drinking increases your risk of cancer, according to research part-funded by Cancer Research UK and published in Nature on January 3.
Much previous research looking at the precise...
The most common type of tumor found in the kidney is generally quite small (less than 1.5 in). These tumors are usually found by accident when CAT scans are performed for other reasons and the serendipitous finding poses a...
A drug developed for diabetes could be used to treat Alzheimer's after scientists found it "significantly reversed memory loss" in mice through a triple method of action.
The research, published in Brain Research, could bring substantial improvements in the treatment of...
UBC Okanagan's Assoc. Prof. Zach Walsh.
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Newly published research suggests that common psychedelic drugs -- such as magic mushrooms, LSD and mescaline (a substance derived from the peyote cactus) -- may reduce criminal offences.
The...
Analyzing data that followed people over a five year period, the research has found that moving to a greener area not only improves people's mental health, but that the effect continues long after they have moved.
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The research shows that women in their early 20s during the Great Recession will not only postpone having children but are likely to have fewer children in the long term.
Credit: Tom McNemar
While it is largely understood that birth rates...
From Figure 1 in the article.
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Current antiretroviral therapy can keep HIV in check and prevent AIDS in the vast majority of treated patients. However, as it is unable to eliminate viral reservoirs and cure the...
