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Philadelphia, August 15, 2018 Chronic, frequent tobacco smokers have a decreased number of cannabinoid CB1 receptors, the "pot receptor", when ...

Compound discovered that targets cancer cells lacking the protective p53 ‘guardian gene’

A NEW chemical compound with the potential to destroy hard-to-treat cancer cells has been developed and tested by scientists at ...

A molecular switch may serve as new target point for cancer and diabetes therapies

Credit: Thomas Splettstoesser If certain signaling cascades are misregulated, diseases like cancer, obesity and diabetes may occur. A mechanism recently ...

Chips, light and coding moves the front line in beating bacteria

Credit: OIST The never-ending fight against bacteria has taken a turn in humanity's favor with the announcement of a tool ...

Parental life span predicts daughters living to 90 without chronic disease or disability

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that women whose mothers lived to at least ...

Emergency hospital visits more common among most deprived bowel cancer patients

Bowel cancer patients living in the most deprived areas have up to 13% higher proportions of emergency hospital admissions before ...

Restoring blood flow may be best option to save your life and limb

DALLAS, Aug. 15, 2018 -- Treatments that restore blood flow to the lower limbs of people with a serious circulation ...

Eating breakfast burns more carbs during exercise and accelerates metabolism for next meal

Credit: Javier Gonzalez Eating breakfast before exercise may "prime" the body to burn carbohydrates during exercise and more rapidly digest ...

Baycrest co-created Virtual Brain joins flagship neuroscience initiative in Europe

Credit: Michael Burgstahler, Two Tribes The Virtual Brain (TVB), an international brain-mapping platform co-developed by Baycrest researchers, has become part ...

Common Wifi can detect weapons, bombs and chemicals in bags

Credit: Data Analysis and Information Security (DAISY) Lab led by Professor Yingying Chen Ordinary WiFi can easily detect weapons, bombs ...

How ugly marital spats might open the door to disease

Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center COLUMBUS, Ohio - Married people who fight nastily are more likely to ...

Researchers assemble ‘library of sugars’

Most of us tend to think of sugar as a temptation that threatens our health. The reality is, however, that ...

New approach to treating chronic itch

Two receptors in the spinal cord and the right experimental drug: Researchers at the University of Zurich have discovered a ...

NIH study shows how MERS Coronavirus evolves to infect different species

Credit: NIAID WHAT: In the past 15 years, two outbreaks of severe respiratory disease were caused by coronaviruses transmitted from ...

Study: What patients really think about opioid vs non-opioid medications for chronic pain

Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Prescriptions of opioids for chronic pain has increased dramatically since the 1990s in spite of ...

Space-based tracker to give scientists a beyond-bird’s-eye-view of wildlife

Credit: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology New Haven, Conn. - The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, or ICARUS, ...

MossRehab named top ten rehabilitation facility in nation

MossRehab, the renowned physical and cognitive rehabilitation arm of Einstein Healthcare Network, has again been named by U.S. News & ...

Inching closer to a soft spot in isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis

Credit: National Institutes of Health/NIH Image Gallery Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a public health threat. TB and other bacteria become resistant ...

Deaths from resident-to-resident incidents in dementia offers insights to inform policy

Credit: University of Minnesota Analyzing the incidents between residents in dementia in long-term care homes may hold the key to ...

Magnetic gene in fish may someday help those with epilepsy, Parkinson’s