Music may offer an alternative to the use of a drug routinely used to calm the nerves before the use
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Protein offers hope for women with a deadly form of breast cancer
Naturally-occurring protein found in the kidneys may offer hope for thousands of women with one of the deadliest forms of
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Research shows benefits of spore-based probiotic supplements—but most probiotics offer little to no benefit
Over the counter probiotic products are found in most drug and grocery stores promising to restore and promote gut health.
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Red-blood-cell ‘hitchhikers’ offer new way to transport drugs to specific targets
A new drug-delivery technology which uses red blood cells (RBCs) to shuttle nano-scale drug carriers, called RBC-hitchhiking (RH), has been
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Drug’s impact on amino acid transporter may offer non-small cell lung cancer patients new hope
An amino acid transporter named xCT may affect the growth and progression of non-small cell lung cancer, a discovery that
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Drowsy worms offer new insights into the neuroscience of sleep
A good night of sleep entails about eight hours of blissful immobility—a state of near paralysis that, though welcome at
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Blood test could offer life-and-death clues for African-American diabetics
Testing blood for a biological marker called suPAR could help better assess the risk of death among African-Americans with Type
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