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Research starring brain cells known as astrocytes uncovers a pathway that allows mental acuity to lie alongside sleep deprivation.
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Another Reason to Eat Your Veggies: Fighting Skin Cancer
Green vegetables, including broccoli and cabbage, contain compounds that could prove to be a potent drug against skin cancer, researchers report.
A New Weapon Against Cancer: Implanted Disks
Tiny plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted beneath the skin can prompt the mammalian immune system…
The Power of Hamster Wheels
Forget biomass and ethanol, the secret to solving the energy crisis might come down to a tapping finger…
Rat Poison Provides Calcification Clue
There’s good news and bad news for rats. The good news is that common rats with a genetic…
Zinc During Pregnancy Can Reduce Alcohol’s Ills
Researchers have long known that binge drinking — even only once — during the early stages of pregnancy…
Do You Feel For Someone? It’s In Your Genes
New research on mice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Oregon Health and Science University has concluded…
When the Immune System Tolls
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Yale University (studying mice) pinpoint the first line of defense the immune…
Chronic Drinking Worse than Binging for the Liver
While the connection between liver damage and alcohol consumption has long been known, researchers have been trying to determine if the specifics of liver injury could be tied to particular drinking patterns.