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Ivermectin’s development and impact trace from anti-parasitic breakthroughs to COVID-era polarization shaped by politics, hope, distrust, and misinformation.
fromThe Atlantic
5 months ago

The Era of Custom Weight-Loss Drugs Is Coming

A whole slew of next-generation obesity drugs are on the horizon, some already advanced enough in clinical trials to be looking as good as-if not better than-those already on the market. The novel medications continue to push the upward limits of weight loss, now to almost 25 percent of body weight on average, but they also differ in their modes of action. They target different cells and different parts of cells in the brain and body.
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Medicine
fromPsychology Today
7 months ago

Acetaminophen-What You Need to Consider

Acetaminophen is a widely used synthetic chemical with unclear biological mechanisms despite extensive historical use, large global markets, and massive population-level consumption.
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fromNature
10 months ago

Nanobody therapy rescues behavioural deficits of NMDA receptor hypofunction - Nature

Innovative therapies for brain diseases include nanobodies as a promising alternative to traditional small molecules and antibodies.
fromHarvard Gazette
11 months ago

An exercise drug? - Harvard Gazette

We know that exercise does so many good things to the brain and against Alzheimer's disease... we actually want to activate these molecular pathways using pharmacology.
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fromwww.nature.com
11 months ago

Rescuing dendritic cell interstitial motility sustains antitumour immunity

Dendritic cells are essential for T cell tumor responses, with migration being critical for their function.
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