Exposure to alcohol during the first weeks of embryonic development changes gene activity and cellular metabolism. In laboratory cultures, it was found that the first cells of the nervous system are ...

Members of the study (Left to right): Dr Tirtha Das Banerjee, Department of Biological Sciences, NUS; Dr. Joshua Raine, Research Fellow; Dr. Caroline Kibat, Senior Research Fellow; Study Lead ...

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken from me,'' Winston Churchill once observed. And there's plenty of evidence that light to moderate alcohol consumption can have health benefits ...

Findings from a study published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy suggested cannabidiol (CBD) could potentially minimize some effects associated with fe | Health And Medicine ...

A groundbreaking Cleveland Clinic trial is demonstrating how gene-editing technology could transform the way millions of Americans manage high cholesterol. A Phase 1 clinical trial at Cleveland Clinic ...

Is there a link between blue eyes and the risk of alcoholism? — -- There's a new potential clue in the ongoing effort to understand the genetic links to alcoholism: eye color. People with lighter ...

Orexin, one of the two signals the researchers studied, originates in neurons (green) in the brain’s hypothalamus (left) that connect with a part of the thalamus called the pPVT (right). LA JOLLA, ...