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In 2019 Dr. Stephen Withers and colleagues at the University of British Columbia identified a series of enzymes that can be used to modify the chemical structure of a sugar antigen on the surface of […]

Eighty stakeholders from twenty major biomedical research institutions across the globe have agreed upon a list of 19 open science practices to be implemented and monitored. The study, led by Dr. Kelly Cobey, Scientist and […]

The fight-or-flight response evolved to keep us safe from predators, but it can sometimes cause us to overreact in modern life when we don’t face the same dangers we once did. Now, researchers from Japan […]

Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of epilepsy, a chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures that affects around 50 million people. A research team led by Bret Smith, professor and head of the […]

A new study from University of Galway has found high death rates in weaning intensive care patients from ventilation.This post was originally published on this site

A team of researchers at the University of Vienna has found evidence showing that listening to music when stressed can boost a person’s mood and help them relax. In their paper published on the JAMA […]

Many cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis, or “hardening of the arteries,” correlate to mitochondrial dysfunction and endothelial impairment in the tissues of the heart and blood vessels. Despite a significant improvement in therapies to treat […]

A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself.This post was originally published on this site

For anyone who has taken Biology 101, the concept of apoptosis—programmed cell death—is taught early in the course. You can’t understand the life cycle of a cell without learning how they die.This post was originally […]

A University of Alberta researcher is one step closer to demonstrating the potential of a brain molecule called fractalkine to halt and even reverse the effects of multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases.This post was […]