A direct comparison between the experimental psychedelic drug psilocybin and a standard SSRI antidepressant shows similar improvement of depressive symptoms, but that psilocybin offers additional longer-term benefits.
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One major reason why it has been difficult to develop an effective HIV vaccine is that the virus mutates very rapidly, allowing it to evade the antibody response generated by vaccines.
Sep 20, 2024
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Fever temperatures rev up immune cell metabolism, proliferation and activity, but they also—in a particular subset of T cells—cause mitochondrial stress, DNA damage and cell death, Vanderbilt University Medical Center ...
Sep 20, 2024
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Joshua Lupton, M.D., has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete recovery and putting him ...
Sep 20, 2024
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Investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed the largest collection of sarcoma patient-derived organoids to date that can help improve the understanding of the disease and better identify ...
Sep 20, 2024
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Mpox, a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, saw a significant increase in cases from mid-2022. The variant in the 2022 outbreak, named clade IIb, spread globally, primarily affecting men who have sex with men. In response, ...
Sep 20, 2024
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In a constantly changing world, animals, including humans, need to quickly adapt to their environment and learn to make decisions that lead to the best possible outcomes. In most cases, this type of learning happens through ...
Sep 20, 2024
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Scientists have identified two types of microbes in the gut using data from a year-long study of the same patients and suggest that labeling both helpful and harmful gut bacteria could make treatment easier.
Sep 20, 2024
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In recent years, eye tracking technology has advanced rapidly, suggesting that our eyes deserve greater attention within the evolving brain-machine interface (BMI) landscape. One particularly intriguing area is the connection ...
Sep 20, 2024
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First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the National Wastewater Surveillance ...
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