Category: 5. Biology

How much influence does barriers to medical cannabis (MC) have on the illicit medicinal cannabis (IMC) use? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Cannabis Research hopes to address as a team…

The gut is home to trillions of microbes, which can have a wide range of impacts on human health in various ways. These microbes produce bioactive molecules and modify chemicals that can have an effect on the…

A small molecule left over after gut microbes finish digesting your meal may one day provide a new angle for managing cardiovascular disease.

Certain gut microbes break down the amino acid histidine, one of the building blocks of…

While they have no backbone, sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides)…

The amount of each of the more than a thousand different glycoproteins in your blood varies widely with the 10 most abundant glycoproteins accounting for 90 percent of the total mass. Finding a protein that isn’t in this top 10 is a…

Amyloids are perhaps best known as a key driver of Alzheimer’s disease. 

The amorphous proteins, found throughout the human body, stick to nerve cells like plaque, choking off their function and contributing to a host of…

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers studied the association between consumption of tetrahydrocannabinol-dominant cannabis products and anxiety and depression. The findings published in…

The research team led by Senior Researchers Yoonhee Lee from the Division of Biomedical Technology and Gyogwon Koo from the Division of Intelligent Robot at DGIST (under President Kunwoo Lee) has developed a technology that…

If it has seemed like more people you know are developing diabetes, you are right. The diabetes epidemic is not called that for nothing: According to the American Diabetes Association, over 10 percent of the U.S….