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In contrast to most antidepressant medications, which can take several weeks to reduce depressive symptoms, ketamine -- a commonly used veterinary anesthetic -- can lift a person out of a deep depression within minutes of its…

PHILADELPHIA--Daniel J. Rader, MD, chair of the department of Genetics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a globally recognized expert in the treatment and prevention of heart disease, has been awarded…

Credit: Adam Wong, PhD. Modified from Disease Models & Mechanisms. doi: 10.1242/dmm.023408. Research tells us that the commensal or "good" bacteria that inhabit our intestines help to regulate our metabolism. A new study in fruit…

Credit: Illustration credit: Planetary Visions/ESA Illustration text: VR. Barletta. An international team of researchers, with a new study published in Science with DTU Space as lead author, finds ..

(Harvard Medical School) The 2018 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for transformative discoveries in the fields of genetics, physiology, pulmonology and pharmacology that have led to the development of…

(DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) Article describes PPPL winners of DOE Early Career Awards.

(Princeton University) Princeton chemists led by Prof. Todd Hyster have found a way to make a naturally occurring enzyme take on a new, artificial role, which has significant implications for modern chemistry, including pharmaceutical…

In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, which reclassified drug possession offenses from felonies or "wobblers"--which prosecutors can charge as either felonies or misdemeanors--to misdeme..

Credit: Drexel University Effective verbal communication depends on one's ability to retrieve and select the appropriate words to convey an intended meaning. For many, this process is instinctive, but for someone who has suffered a…

Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (June 21, 2018) -- Investigators have identified a new cellular pathway that may help explain how arterial inflammation develops into atherosclerosis--deposits of cholesterol, fats and other substances…