Kratom’s reputed pain-relief benefits could come from one of its metabolites
Kratom is a Southeast Asian tree with a long history of use in traditional medicine. In the region, the plant’s
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Big energy savings for tiny machines
Inside all of us are trillions of tiny molecular nanomachines that perform a variety of tasks necessary to keep us
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Fast-changing genetics key to hospital superbug survival
For the study, published today in Microbial Genomics, a team of scientists at UCL Genetics Institute and Peking University People’s
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Cancer prevention drug also disables H. pylori bacterium
A medicine currently being tested as a chemoprevention agent for multiple types of cancer has more than one trick in
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Research paves way for new source for leukemia drug
Chemistry researchers at Oregon State University have patented a method for making anti-leukemia compounds that until now have only been
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Height gap with parents, not genetics, determines onset of puberty
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have found that the age puberty hits is based on the gap between
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GMO food opponents think they know the most, but actually know the least: Study
New research suggests that people’s illusion of knowledge could be fueling the broader population’s opposition to genetically modified (GM) foods.
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Uncovering a key mechanism in assembly of Avian Sarcoma Virus, a relative of HIV-1
A key step in retroviral growth inside a cell, as described by Jamil Saad, Ph.D., and colleagues, is portrayed on
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New research could fine-tune the gene scissors CRISPR
The introduction of the tool for gene editing, the so-called gene scissors CRISPR, in 2007 was a revolution within medical
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New dual-action cancer-killing virus
Scientists have equipped a virus that kills carcinoma cells with a protein so it can also target and kill adjacent
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