It seems so obvious that someone should have thought of it decades ago: Since parasites have plagued eukaryotic life for millions of years, their prevalence likely affected evolution. Psychologist Marco Del Giudice of the ...
As you drift into unconsciousness before a surgery, general anesthetic drugs flowing through your blood are putting you to sleep by binding mainly to a protein in the brain called the γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptor. ...
Biochemistry
Sep 2, 2020
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Cannabis has been cultivated for millennia in East Asia as an oil-seed and fibre crop. Little is known, however, about the early use and eventual cultivation of the plant for its psychoactive and medicinal properties. Despite ...
Archaeology
Jun 12, 2019
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University of Saskatchewan researchers have discovered the chemical pathway that Cannabis sativa uses to create bioactive compounds called cannabinoids, paving the way for the development of marijuana varieties to produce ...
Biochemistry
Jul 16, 2012
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Neurons that remain active even after the triggering stimulus has been silenced form the basis of short-term memory. The brain uses rhythmically active neurons to combine larger groups of neurons into functional units. Until ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 19, 2018
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Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University have co-developed a system that captures on video and barcodes the behavioral responses of zebrafish to chemical compounds on a large scale. The approach ...
Biochemistry
Jan 19, 2010
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Drug traffickers have found a way to trick enforcement agencies by using one of the most potent tools our bodies have: our metabolism. Welcome to the world of prodrugs.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 25, 2023
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A new study reporting small amounts of the designer drug methcathinone in South Australia's wastewater could have more do with allergy medication and laundry detergents than illegal drug taking.
Environment
Jun 7, 2022
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A low-cost, one-step method to remove the anxiety drug Diazepam from recycled water and wastewater, using titanium dioxide nanofibers has been developed by researchers headed by University of Johannesburg's Prof Vinod Kumar ...
Materials Science
Feb 21, 2018
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As infections such as tuberculosis have become immune to an ever widening range of antibiotics doctors have looked on helplessly.
Biochemistry
Dec 28, 2011
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