Researchers have designed a new protein which strongly resembles Abeta. In people with Alzheimer’s, Amyloid-beta…
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Significant pain increases the risk of opioid addiction by 41 percent
What do we really know about the relationship between the experience of pain and risk…
Shaken baby syndrome accepted as diagnosis by majority of physicians
Survey data reveals a high degree of medical consensus that shaking a young child is…
Novel compounds arrested epilepsy development in mice
Neuroprotective compounds have been developed by scientists that may prevent the development of epilepsy. The…
Collective hum: Buzzing midges inspire new swarm theory
A team of researchers based in Israel and the US has found a mathematical resemblance…
Smokers quitting tobacco also drink less alcohol
People who have recently begun an attempt to quit smoking tobacco are more likely to…
An engineered protein can disrupt tumor-promoting ‘messages’ in human cells
A team of researchers have unveiled an engineered protein that they designed to repress a…
New therapeutic targets for small cell lung cancer identified
Researchers have identified a protein termed ASCL1 that is essential to the development of small…
How the immune system might evolve to conquer HIV
Scientists have mathematically modeled the coevolutionary processes that describe how antibodies and viruses interact and…
Historical records miss a fifth of global warming: NASA
A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred…