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Boosting Crop Production by Relieving Bottlenecks

Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase in crop production.
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Study to Investigate Links Between Immune System and Mental Health

Our understanding of how our psyche affects our immune system – and vice versa – has been limited. A new study hopes to investigate how suppressing inflammation might help our mental health.
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Study Suggests a Lack of Racial Diversity in Cancer Drug Trials

A new study has found that fewer than 8% of cancer drug trials reported participation from the four major races in the United States – white, Asian, black and Hispanic – between 2008 and 2018.
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Single Molecule Boost Reduces Anxiety in Macaque Models

Boosting a single molecule in the brain can change “dispositional anxiety,” the tendency to perceive many situations as threatening, in nonhuman primates, researchers have found.
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Grant Fuels Drug Discovery Efforts for ALS

Scientists have received a $3.1 million grant to collaborate and investigate drug therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Genes Responsible for Sex-related Differences in Cancer Aggressiveness ID’d

A new study conducted by the Institute for Research in Biomedicine involving the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has identified possible regulators that determine differences in tumors between sexes.
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Microorganisms in Poop May Help Treat Skin Cancer

Researchers from the Lawson Health Research Institute are investigating whether fecal transplants can improve the outcomes in patients with melanoma who are undergoing immunotherapy treatment.
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Optofluidic Chip With Nanopore 'Smart Gate' Developed for Single Molecule Analysis

Programmable device enables on-demand delivery of individual biomolecules with feedback-controlled gating for high-throughput analysis.
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From Ion Channels to Whole Brain Stimulation

Pores at the surface of neurons and muscle cells control your every thought, movement; the very beating of your heart. The way the pores behave shapes signals in the form of ions moving across the cell surface. For the first time, researchers have mapped the behavior of the largest family of these voltage-gated ion channels: Kv channels.
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Kids Need More Sleep, Less Screen, Says HALO Group

A paper published today in Pediatrics suggests that children and youth who do not sleep enough and use screens more than recommended are more likely to act impulsively and make poorer decisions.
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