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More than half of all opioid prescriptions go to people with mental illness
ANN ARBOR--Fifty-one percent of all opioid medications distributed in the U.S. each year are prescribed to adults with mood disorders...
Conducting shell for bacteria
Under anaerobic conditions, certain bacteria can produce electricity. This behavior can be exploited in microbial fuel cells, with a special...
Giving birth multiple times has impact on stroke recovery, study shows
Stroke is an age-related disease that disproportionately affects women. Although experimental studies have identified several hormonal and genetic factors underlying...
The dust storm microbiome
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Israel is subjected to sand and dust storms from several directions: northeast from the Sahara,...
New wound healing properties of ficin researched at Kazan University
The project is headed by Senior Research Associate of the Microorganism Genetics Lab Ayrat Kayumov and funded by Russian Science...
Morgridge scientists illuminate structures vital to virus replication
Credit: Ahlquist lab, Morgridge Institute for Research MADISON -- In the fight against the viruses that invade everyday life, seeing...
Study calls for urgent need for improved human-wildlife conflict management across India
Credit: Krithi Karanth Bengaluru, India (June 27, 2017) -- There is an urgent need to strengthen human-wildlife conflict management across...
Brain signals deliver first targeted treatment for world’s most common movement disorder
Credit: University of Washington Essential tremor is the world's most common movement disorder, affecting an estimated 7 million people in...
Pre-synaptic cadherin/catenin complexes stablize post-synaptic spines in vivo
Credit: Image by Dr. LI Yefei Synapses are fundamental building blocks of neural circuits. Synapse formation requires complex regulation involving...
Researchers examine brain region that affects drug use habits
The human brain is nimble. It can reorganize itself to learn new things, catalog memories, and even break old habits....
Dartmouth study finds legal cannabis laws impact teen use
HANOVER, NH -- A new study by researchers at Dartmouth has found that adolescents living in medical marijuana states with...
How grassland management without the loss of species works
The intensive management of grasslands is bad for biodiversity. However, a study by the Terrestrial Ecology Research Group at the...
Thwarting metastasis by breaking cancer’s legs with gold rods
Credit: NIH-funded image of apoptotic HeLa cell by the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research / Thomas Deerinck /...
Microscope can scan tumors during surgery and examine cancer biopsies in 3-D
Credit: University of Washington When women undergo lumpectomies to remove breast cancer, doctors try to remove all the cancerous tissue...
Cloning thousands of genes for massive protein libraries
Credit: Jennifer E. Fairman/Johns Hopkins University Discovering the function of a gene requires cloning a DNA sequence and expressing it....
Using ‘sticky’ nanoparticles, researchers develop strategy to boost body’s cancer defenses
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- After radiation treatment, dying cancer cells spit out mutated proteins into the body. Scientists now know...
Study highlights need for education and training to help human trafficking victims
Healthcare professionals are in a unique position to identify and rescue victims of human trafficking. Nearly 88 percent of them...
Moisture-responsive ‘robots’ crawl with no external power source
Credit: Yong-Lai Zhang of Jilin University WASHINGTON -- Using an off-the-shelf camera flash, researchers turned an ordinary sheet of graphene...
Previously unknown extinction of marine megafauna discovered
The disappearance of a large part of the terrestrial megafauna such as saber-toothed cat and the mammoth during the ice...
The beach time capsule
And to think it was all right there in her garage. A load of boxes pulled from biologist Dale Straughan's...
