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(University of British Columbia) Fentanyl use by people who use drugs has doubled since 2015, and two-thirds of people are aware they've taken it, finds new research out of British Columbia, the Canadian province that ha...

The new test, based on a hormone, is more accurate than previous methods of predicting when periods will stop.

(Stanford Medicine) Biomedical data scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that the number of genes a cell uses to make RNA is a reliable indicator of how developed the cell is, a finding tha...

(University of California - San Diego) Approximately one-quarter of patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them, with five to 10 percent developing an opioid use disorder or addiction. In a new study...

(Clinic for Special Children) A new study analyzes 30 years of patient data and details the clinical course of 184 individuals with genetically diverse forms of Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD), which is among the most v...

(McGill University) In a new study, a team of researchers at McGill University has shown that, when given in a formulation that facilitates passage to the brain, lithium in doses up to 400 times lower than what is curren...

(University of Stirling) The impact of the tobacco display ban on young people's attitudes to smoking has been analysed by University of Stirling experts.

(University of California - Davis) Scientists have detected Marburg virus in fruit bats in Sierra Leone, marking the first time the deadly virus has been found in West Africa. Eleven Egyptian rousette fruit bats tested p...

(National Cancer Research Institute) Join us this March to hear about the most recent developments in the NCRI Living with and Beyond Cancer Research Groups projects. Sessions will address each of the workstreams, lookin...

(University of Birmingham) Scientists have examined a key receptor for the first time at high resolution -- broadening understanding of how it might function, and opening the door to future improvements in treating condi...

(Stanford University -- School of Humanities and Sciences) A new technique for systematically surveying proteins on the outer surface of cells, which act like molecular social cues to guide cell-cell interactions and ass...

(IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) The entire set of our emotions is mapped in a small region of the brain, a 3 centimeters area of the cortex, according to a study conducted at the IMT School for Advanced Studies L...

(Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - KNAW) Researcher of the Netherlands Institute for neuroscience found that myelin, the sheath around neurons, creates a coaxial cable producing multiple waves of electrical potent...

(University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center) University Hospitals (UH) Seidman Cancer Center treated its first patient in a new clinical trial to validate the groundbreaking effects of the poliovirus on glioblastoma (...

(Lancaster University) One of the causes of breast cancer may be inflammation triggered by harmful bacteria suggest researchers. Scientists advise consuming natural yogurt, which contains beneficial bacteria which dampen...

(University of Pennsylvania) The parasite Toxoplasma gondii need not infect a host immune cell to alter its behavior, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

(RIKEN) A sustained state of vigilance will generate a different type of memory than a momentary startle, and these differences are linked to distinct signaling molecules in the brains of mice. Researchers at the RIKEN C...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) In a follow-up to the landmark 2011 study that demonstrated prenatal surgery for spina bifida has measurable benefits over surgery after birth for one of the most disabling neural tu...

(MDPI TOXICS) A new study published on Jan. 24, 2020, in the journal Toxics provides important insight into the recent lung intoxication epidemic referred to as 'e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury' ...

(University of Eastern Finland) A new study published in Seizure gives insight into the short-term outcome of patients treated for status epilepticus in Kuopio University Hospital in Finland. The researchers found a 9% r...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) The benefits of fetal surgery to repair spina bifida, a procedure pioneered at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in 1997, continue through school age, a National Institute...

(Washington University School of Medicine) The DNA molecule inside the nucleus of any human cell is more than six feet long. To fit into such a small space, it must fold into precise loops that also govern how genes are ...