Low doses of ketamine didn’t reduce delirium, postoperative pain, or other complications related to major surgeries. The results challenge a common practice.
Detailed views of two membrane receptors involved in controlling blood glucose reveal new insights into important drug targets for diabetes and obesity.
June 13, 2017 —
Researchers uncovered a key role for intestinal fungi in the liver damage seen in alcoholic liver disease. The findings suggest a potential approach to treating alcoholic liver disease.
June 13, 2017 —
In the lab, novel compounds thwarted bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic vancomycin. The findings could lead to improved antibiotics.
June 6, 2017 —
Antibodies from an Ebola survivor protected animals from deadly ebolaviruses and could help inform the development of potential treatments and vaccines.
June 6, 2017 —
Brain regions that are involved in analyzing social relationships in rhesus macaque monkeys may be a precursor to humans’ ability to understand what another person is thinking.
June 6, 2017 —
Switching mice from a high glycemic diet to a low glycemic diet stopped the development of certain signs of age-related macular degeneration.
May 23, 2017 —
The thalamus, long assumed to be merely an information relay, may also play a pivotal role in the brain’s thinking circuity and could be a therapeutic target for certain psychiatric disorders.
