A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see.
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A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory Posted: 5 months ago by germz
Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again.
...
wait, what?
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Cheeri-Uh-Ohs: FDA Said Cheerios is an Unapproved Drug Posted: 7 months ago by bingo
Did you eat your Cheerios this morning? You may have just inadvertently taken an unapproved drug. Or so says the FDA, who has just sent a warning letter to General Mills, the maker of the cereal.
Promoting them as a drug that can lower cholesterol is going too far. That's what the Food and Drug Administration says the yellow box does.
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No, it's not a pigment of your imagination: Breakthrough drug can restore white hair to its original colour Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
In a discovery that could brighten up the lives of millions, scientists have created a drug that restores white hair to its natural colour.
They hope the drug, converted into a shampoo, could eventually be used as an alternative to dyes to hide greying locks.
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The Most Dangerous Drug in the World Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
Scopolamine is a colorless, tasteless, odorless drug. The most horrifying side effect of the drug is not is ability to make zombies of its victims, but the complete amnesia it causes.
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Suicide risk from anti-smoking drug probed Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it has received reports of mood disorders and erratic behavior among patients taking Chantix. The drug won regulatory approval last year to aid adults trying to quit smoking and sales totaled $101 million.
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Girl killed by a fatal dose of a date rape drug... which was put in her SIPPY CUP. Posted: 3 years ago by digitalgimpling
"Minh Phu Le poisoned his daughter Skyla on Friday and attempted suicide with the same drug because he wanted to punish his mistress -- the girl's mother -- for trying to leave him, investigators said."
I cannot adequately express my horror.
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New drug allows women to grow longer and thicker eyelashes Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Glamorous girls could soon throw out their mascara and fiddly false lashes thanks to the arrival of the first eyelash-enhancing drug. Women can look forward to growing longer, fuller and darker lashes within as little as two months using Latisse, the first eyelash enhancer to be approved by the FDA.
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New Drug for End-Stage Prostate Cancer Developed Posted: 1 year ago by maxriter
Scientists uncover a breakthrough drug for the treatment of the severe prostate cancer that claims to be more effective than chemotherapy.
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Alzheimer's drug 'halts' decline Posted: 1 year ago by Maxriter
UK scientists have developed a drug which may halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
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Researchers identify novel anticancer drug from the sea Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A collaborative team of researchers has identified a potent new anti-cancer drug isolated from a toxic blue-green algae found in the South Pacific.
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Drug found to treat Melanoma Posted: 6 months ago by Ankabout
Scientists think they've found a drug that can treat the deadliest form of skin cancer, even in advanced stages of the disease.
Good news!
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College Gangstas Rob Their Campus Drug Dealer Posted: 8 months ago by suebe
A group of students was arrested after they held up their dormitory drug dealer in order to seek revenge for receiving mediocre cocaine. The drug dealer reported the robbery to police.
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Forced Evolution: Can We Mutate Viruses To Death? Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
It sounds like a science fiction movie: A killer contagion threatens the Earth, but scientists save the day with a designer drug that forces the virus to mutate itself out of existence. The killer disease? Still a fiction. The drug? It could become a reality thanks to a new study by Rice University bioengineers.
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Scientists find drug to banish bad memories Posted: 2 years ago by glik
Man oh man, would this come in handy.
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Forget... Posted: 8 months ago by suebe
Researchers at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center say they've prompted rodents to forget painful memories by injecting them with a drug called ZIP, which interferes with neural substance integral memory functions.
"This possibility of memory editing has enormous possibilities and raises huge ethical issues."
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HIV drug resistance target find Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A specific protein in the body may be the key to overcoming the increasing problem of resistance to HIV drugs.
Inactivating the ITK protein which is involved in the immune response blocks many steps of HIV replication, studies in the laboratory show.
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