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Exercise can help to prevent relapse in those with cocaine addition
Exercise can help prevent relapses into cocaine addiction, according to new research led by the University at Buffalo’s Panayotis (Peter) Thanos, PhD.
“Cocaine addiction is...
Many patients with neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety or depression experience negative moods that...
MIT neuroscientists have now pinpointed a brain region that can generate this type of pessimistic mood.
In tests in animals, they showed that stimulating this region,...
Salk scientists find that common dietary elements cure lethal infections, eliminating the need for...
Antibiotic use is driving an epidemic of antibiotic resistance, as more susceptible bacteria are killed but more resilient strains live on and multiply with...
Life-expectancy for individuals with younger-onset disease is on average 16 years shorter compared to...
Being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at a young age is associated with more cardiovascular complications and higher risk of premature death than being...
A new systematic review provides the most comprehensive assessment to date on the scientific...
"Effectiveness of Fertility Awareness–Based Methods for Pregnancy Prevention:
A Systematic Review," led by UNC's Rachel Peragallo Urrutia, MD, was published in Obstetrics and Gynecology, also...
MIT researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for...
Glioblastoma is a malignant tumor that appears in the brain or spinal cord, and prognosis for adults is no more than five years.
Patients must...
Several gene mutations have been linked to Parkinson’s disease, but exactly how and where...
A new Yale study, published in the Journal of Cell Biology, shows that one of the genes whose mutations are responsible for a familial...
Virus transmission among humans : Researchers discover highly infectious vehicle
Researchers have found that a group of viruses that cause severe stomach illness—including the one famous for widespread outbreaks on cruise ships— get transmitted...
Found new evidence of how certain transport proteins are working at the molecular level,...
The study's findings have been published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Neurotransmitter:
sodium symporters (NSS) regulate signals between nerve cells,...
Cancer cells are more than a lump of cells growing out of control; they...
Cancer cells are more than a lump of cells growing out of control; they participate in active combat with the immune system for their...
A new study shows that men only have to believe they’ve bested another man...
Scientists found that this hormonal and psychological shift made men more inclined to approach new potential partners.
The research team measured hormone levels, as well...
A study of 1.2 million people in the USA has found that people who...
The study found that team sports, cycling, aerobics and going to the gym are associated with the biggest reductions, according to the largest observational...
Investigators have discovered that arsenic in combination with an existing leukemia drug work together...
The team, led by researchers at the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), is hopeful that the discovery could lead to...
Cell lines form the backbone of cancer research. These individual groups of cells enable...
Cell lines form the backbone of cancer research.
These individual groups of cells, typically collected from patients' tumor samples and cultured to grow indefinitely in...
New research led by the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and...
The team, led by Professor Paul Thomas, investigated North American research published last year that seemed to demonstrate that gene editing in human embryos...
