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Anti-cancer drugs can be repurposed for the treatment of infections caused by a wide...
No matter the pathogen - virus, bacterium or fungus - many "pick a specific type of lock" on the surface of cells, which allows...
Chronic sleep problems : Sleeping medications can help to reduce depression and suicidality
Insomnia is a driver of suicide, and particularly people with severe insomnia may safely benefit from taking a sedative to help address their sleep...
CBD blocks the psychiatric side-effects of THC
Researchers at Western University have shown for the first time the molecular mechanisms at work that cause cannabidiol, or CBD, to block the psychiatric...
How can we understand spoken language so quickly?
Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how we’re able to understand spoken language so rapidly, and it involves a huge and complex...
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease : researchers founds link with the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases enzyme
Treatments have been hard to pinpoint for a rare neurological disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), in part because so many variations of the condition exist....
Legal purchasers of handguns with a prior DUI conviction have a greater risk of...
Legal purchasers of handguns with a prior DUI conviction have a greater risk of a future arrest for a violent offense — including murder,...
Better quality of sleep is strongly associated with better academic performance in college
Two MIT professors have found a strong relationship between students’ grades and how much sleep they’re getting.
What time students go to bed and...
Toxoplasma parasite causes a distinctive lesion in the retina
One-third of the world population is infected with Toxoplasma, which causes a common eye infection called ocular toxoplasmosis.
Researchers have shed new light on how...
New strategy to enhance interactions between humans and robotic swarms
Researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Russia have recently introduced a new strategy to enhance interactions between humans and...
Zero-energy – researchers invent low-cost alternative to Bitcoin
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is limited by its astronomical electricity consumption and outsized carbon footprint.
A nearly zero-energy alternative sounds too good to be true,...
Olfactory importance of the smell of a newborn baby’s head and mother-child bonding
A team led by Kobe University Professor Mamiko Ozaki (Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science) has become the first to identify the chemical...
Musical preference may reveal a lot about your personality traits and political orientation
You are what you listen to. That is the conclusion of a new study conducted by Adrian North and his team from Curtin University.
Recently...
Telomere shortening is associated with gray matter reduction
Telomeres are protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that become shorter with each cell division.
If they become so short that the genes...
Why do the elderly seem more opposed to new popular music?
When I was a teenager, my dad wasn’t terribly interested in the music I liked.
To him, it just sounded like “a lot of...
New imaging technique allows to view synaptic proteins at high resolution
Our brains contain millions of synapses — the connections that transmit messages from neuron to neuron.
Within these synapses are hundreds of different proteins,...
