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Artificial helical microswimmers with shape-morphing capabilities and adaptive locomotion are promising for precision medicine and noninvasive surgery....

InMed Pharmaceuticals Inc. , a leader in the pharmaceutical research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of rare cannabinoids and cannabinoid analogs, today announces the launch of...

Unveiling most active or rapidly developing areas in sciences and social sciences London, U.K. November 28, 2023 - Clarivate Plc , a global leader in...

The woolly mammoth was not one large homogenous group, as scientists previously had assumed, and it did not have much genetic diversity, according to a new genetic study. Woolly mammoths, descended from ancestors in Africa, were widespread in northern Europe, Asia, and North America during the last Ice Age.

<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41972-6">Results from a new clinical trial</a> suggest that a group of brain regions known as the “salience network” is activated after a drug is taken intravenously, but not when that same drug is taken orally. When drugs enter the brain quickly, such as through injection or smoking, they are more addictive than when they enter the brain more slowly, such as when they are taken orally. However...

Louis Brus explains some of the foundational research – and how even the letter carrier wants to shake your hand when you’ve just won a Nobel Prize.

Ensysce Biosciences Announces Poster Presentation at the AAPS 2023 ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan announced his selections for membership of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). The well-qualified experts selected by Administrator Regan bring a cross-selection of scientific

U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan on Oct. 10 announced his selections for membership of the Science Advisory Board and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. SAB and CASAC provide scientific advice to EPA leadership.

Basic research often involves lab work that won't be appreciated until decades down the line. Sebastian Condrea/Moment via Getty ImagesThe 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will go to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discovery that modifying mRNA – a form of genetic material your body uses to produce proteins – could reduce unwanted inflammatory responses and allow it to be delivered into cells. While the impact of their findings may not have been appar...