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Smoking high-potency marijuana concentrates boosts blood levels of THC but don’t boost impairment
Smoking high-potency marijuana concentrates boosts blood levels of THC more than twice as much as smoking conventional weed, but it doesn't necessarily get you...
Coccidioides fungi : Immune modulation can treat the severe and often fatal fungal infection
In the June 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of UCLA physicians and scientists describes the first case of...
Threonine – Tryptophan : new understanding into the roles two essential amino acids play...
Studies by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), have provided a new understanding into the roles two essential amino acids play in metabolic health, which...
Serotonin can reduce the ability of some intestinal pathogens to cause deadly infections
Serotonin, a chemical known for its role in producing feelings of well-being and happiness in the brain, can reduce the ability of some intestinal...
Alzheimer : Neurons that are responsible for new experiences interfere with memories
Neurons that are responsible for new experiences interfere with the signals of neurons that contain memories and thereby disturb the recall of memories -...
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus reproduction number under 1.0
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevents further waves of the virus when combined with lockdowns, a modelling...
COVID-19 : The first documented cases of U.S. household cats infected have emerged in...
The first documented cases of U.S. household cats infected with COVID-19 have emerged in New York state, a new government report shows.
Two cats -...
Researchers have identified BAM15 a small mitochondrial uncoupler that decreases the body fat...
Obesity affects more than 40 percent of adults in the United States and 13 percent of the global population.
With obesity comes a variety...
PFAPA syndrome has become the most common recurring fever syndrome in children from Western...
Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have discovered clues to the possible cause of...
Appetite can be increased by tanycytes cells that respond to nutrients that signal the...
Tanycytes are glial cells, which communicate with neurons in the brain to inform it of what we have eaten. Researchers from the School of...
Most people’s color awareness is limited to a small area around the dead center...
Color awareness has long been a puzzle for researchers in neuroscience and psychology, who debate over how much color observers really perceive. A study...
Researchers are studying the treatment of cystic fibrosis with TMEM16A inhibitors
Cystic fibrosis is the most frequent severe inherited disorder worldwide.
Every year, hundreds of families are confronted with this diagnosis - and to date,...
Covid-19 may spread across surfaces in a hospital – DNA left on a hospital...
Virus DNA left on a hospital bed rail was found in nearly half of all sites sampled across a ward within 10 hours and...
Negative thinking patterns may raise the risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Persistently engaging in negative thinking patterns may raise the risk of Alzheimer's disease, finds a new UCL-led study.
In the study of people aged over...
An autonomous mobility system that works like a wheelchair works at Tokyo airport
An autonomous mobility system that works like a wheelchair without anyone pushing it is scuttling around a Tokyo airport to help with social distancing...
