According to recent studies, sexual assault with chemical submission of victims already amounts to 20.9% of cases. The main drug used in these rapes is alcohol, although assailants also use other psychotropic substances, ...
Nov 29, 2022
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Type 2 diabetes is a major public health problem that affects millions of people worldwide. Developing new drugs to help better treat its underlying causes is therefore a research priority. In a new study coordinated by Inserm ...
Jul 13, 2022
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Japanese scientists have developed a method to isolate and identify active compounds in plant medicines, which accurately accounts for drug behavior in the body. Using the technique, they have identified several active compounds ...
Jun 20, 2017
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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, have in collaboration with colleagues in Copenhagen and Singapore, mapped how the body's own peptides act to reduce infection and inflammation by deactivating the toxic substances ...
Aug 13, 2018
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People with epilepsy could be helped by new research into the way a key molecule controls brain activity during a seizure.
Sep 3, 2013
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Hong Kong scientists claim they have made a potential breakthrough discovery in the fight against infectious diseases—a chemical that could slow the spread of deadly viral illnesses.
Jan 15, 2019
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There is a well-known way to make in vitro fertilization cheaper, easier and safer for women.
Jan 21, 2019
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Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells that reside inside bone marrow. Plasma cells produce certain proteins that build up the immune system. In abnormal quantities, these proteins damage the body and compromise ...
Feb 10, 2017
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McMaster University researchers have found a new way to treat the world's worst infectious diseases, the superbugs that are resistant to all known antibiotics.
Mar 6, 2017
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A large team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S., France and Spain has found that the drug plitidepsin worked better at treating COVID-19 than did remdesivir in a lab setting. In their paper ...
