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Researchers at the University of Northern Colorado teamed up with folks at Mile High Labs in Colorado to interrogate the THC potency claims of cannabis retailers. In the study “Uncomfortably high: Testing reveals inflated THC potency on retail Cannabis labels” published in PLOS ONE, researchers found that labeling did not match the verification tests.

 IN a continued effort to ensure that the situation of mealie meal smuggling is kept under control, the Defence and Security Chief’s have visited Kaumbalesa border post and surrounding areas to ensure that security is intact. Security wings have been deployed to places with rampant mealie meal smuggling to ensure that the vice is controlled. […]

The biomechanics of how cancer cells escape from the bloodstream to invade other organs has been described for the first time by researchers from UCL, MIT and their collaborators.

Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have analyzed RNA editing in postmortem brains of four schizophrenia cohorts and uncovered a significant and reproducible trend of hypo-editing in patients of European descent.

The Lancet Neurology has published data from the phase 3 MycarinG study evaluating the efficacy and safety of rozanolixizumab in adult patients with acetylcholine receptor autoantibody-positive (AChR-Ab+) or muscle-specific tyrosine kinase autoantibody-positive (MuSK-Ab+) generalized myasthenia gravis and the phase 3 RAISE study evaluating the efficacy and safety of zilucoplan in adult patients with mild to severe AChR-Ab+ gMG.

Knowing whether a tumor might grow or spread to other parts of a patient’s body could be key to survival—and now scientists are one step closer to unlocking the ability to predict just that.

Memory impairment associated with steroid use has been identified in a new study. The University of Bristol-led findings, published in PNAS, show great potential for the identification of drugs that could be adapted to treat certain memory disorders.

Choosing a checkout line in a supermarket might seem like a no-brainer, but it can actually involve a complex series of cerebral computations. Maybe you count the number of shoppers in each line and pick the shortest, or estimate the number of items on each conveyor belt. Perhaps you quickly weigh up both shoppers and items and maybe even the apparent speed of the cashier… In fact, there are a multiplicity of strategies for solving this problem.

Researchers at Curtin University have identified the genetic signature of pre-malignant liver cells, offering potentially significant implications for the almost 3,000 Australians diagnosed with the deadly cancer each year.

CU Boulder researchers have discovered a protein’s crucial role in helping breast and ovarian tumors survive and thrive and have found that suppressing that protein kills cancer cells without harming healthy ones.