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Michael Downes has been prohibited from teaching indefinitely after he played a guitar and had pupils sing along during a lesson while allegedly under the influence of alcohol

Most experimental male birth control drugs use a hammer approach to block sperm production, but this one is much more subtle.

Surveys show most men in the United States are interested in using male contraceptives, yet their options remain limited to unreliable condoms or invasive vasectomies.

Salk Institute scientists discover new target for reversible, non-hormonal male birth control

Leslie Bitterman won a near-fatal bout of COVID that put her out of the truck for nearly all of 2022. Now, Overdrives January Trucker of the Month is back to business hauling fruit and other commodities.

UC San Diego researchers found that when mice were fed a high-fat diet, mitochondria within their fat cells broke apart and were less able to burn fat, leading

The number of people with obesity has nearly tripled since 1975, resulting in a worldwide epidemic. While lifestyle factors like diet and exercise play a role in the development and progression of obesity, scientists have come to understand that obesity is also associated with intrinsic metabolic abnormalities.

<p>UC San Diego researchers found that when mice were fed a high-fat diet, mitochondria within their fat cells broke apart and were less able to burn fat, leading to weight gain. They also found they could reverse the effect by targeting a single gene, suggesting a new treatment strategy for obesity.</p>

‘There was never anything in Culmore, there was no community development at all ... we were starting from absolutely ground zero’

‘There was never anything in Culmore, there was no community development at all ... we were starting from absolutely ground zero’