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THC amounts identical in most cannabis strains, UBC study finds
Credit: UBC Okanagan A rose by any other name is still a rose. The same, it turns out, can be...
UCI researchers discover molecular mechanisms of ancient herbal remedies
Credit: Geoff Abbott, PhD, UCI School of Medicine Irvine, CA - October 10, 2018 - Researchers in the Department of...
Team gets a closer look at how proteins meet on the cell membrane
Credit: Izard laboratory, Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - Oct. 10, 2018 - Scripps Research scientists have uncovered the workings of...
Sleep and cardiovascular health in women
Jason Carter, associate vice president for research development and professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology, is speaking at the 2018...
Antiepileptic drugs linked to higher risk of stroke in persons with Alzheimer’s disease
Antiepileptic drug use is associated with an increased risk of stroke among persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new...
Mount Sinai builds modeling systems identifying gene-drug and environment interaction
A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Washington has designed...
NIH awards Steve Farber $3.3-million to identify medicines for cardiovascular disease
Credit: Image courtesy of Jay Thierer Baltimore, MD--Carnegie's Department of Embryology scientist Steven Farber and team have been awarded a...
Comprehensive report says tobacco control must be highest priority in cancer control
The highest priority in a national cancer control plan must be expansion of tobacco control--the intervention with the largest potential...
Tracking a killer
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- A major cause of human disability and death throughout the world, sepsis is a condition that...
PIEZO2, a molecular target for treating clinical pain
Credit: Scripps Research LA JOLLA, CA - Oct. 10, 2018 - If you've ever been sunburned, you've experienced the dreaded...
Researchers using 3D facial scans to aid diagnosis of children with rare genetic syndrome
Credit: 3dMD CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Clemson University faculty have been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health...
Columbia scientist awarded $11.3 million to identify new targets against brain disease
Credit: John Abbott for Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD, a Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute...
New study helps explain recent scarcity of Bay nettles
Credit: © J. Lefcheck/VIMS. A new, long-term study of how environmental conditions affect the abundance and distribution of jellyfish in...
Study: Online positive psychology exercises improve quality of life in hemodialysis patients
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Kidney dialysis patients who engage in technology-based positive psychology exercises during...
Advances in deep learning for drug discovery and biomarker development published in top journal
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, 10th of October, Rockville, MD - While the many concepts in artificial intelligence date back to...
Dartmouth Institute receives $3.5 million for research to prevent acute kidney injury
Credit: Dartmouth Institute Over two million people in the United States undergo cardiac catheterization each year. While the procedure is...
New appropriate use criteria for lumbar puncture in Alzheimer’s diagnosis
In preparation for more tools that detect and measure the biology associated with Alzheimer's and other dementias earlier and with...
University of Guelph researcher develops 3-in-1 vaccine against traveller’s diarrhea
Credit: University of Guelph A first-ever vaccine designed to deliver a one-two-three punch against the main causes of traveller's diarrhea...
$3.6 million to study adverse effects of genome editing
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--October 10, 2018--As genome editing technologies quickly advance toward clinical therapies, they are raising hopes of a completely...
Mayo Clinic researchers identify gene types driving racial disparities in myeloma
ROCHESTER Minn. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified three specific gene types that account for a known two-to-three-fold increase...
