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Researchers uncover new information on the effects of antidepressants – The drugs bind directly to a brain-derived neurotrophic factor receptor without help from serotonin

Feb 19, 2021

While all antidepressants increase the quantity and signalling of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the brain, the drugs have so far been thought to act on BDNF indirectly, through serotonin...

UBC experts on COVID-19

Feb 19, 2021

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Web inventor says Australian law could make internet ‘unworkable’

Feb 18, 2021

Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee has said Australia’s plan to make tech giants pay for journalism could render the internet as we know it “unworkable”. The inventor of the World Wide...

‘Seven minutes of terror’ before landing on Mars

Feb 18, 2021

NASA’s Mars mission, which DTU Space is participating in, has to be slowed down from 20,000 kilometres per hour to walking pace, and find the right place to land before...

Star-Friedman Challenge offers support for high-impact research

Feb 18, 2021

These are only a few of the breakthroughs advanced by the Star-Friedman Challenge for Scientific Research. The Star-Friedman Challenge has been providing seed funding for high-risk, high-impact work in the...

World’s largest clinical trial for COVID-19 treatments expands internationally

Feb 18, 2021

RECOVERY International will help us to identify effective treatments that can be used in less well-resourced settings’ he added. The RECOVERY trial was launched rapidly in the UK in March...

Developing a picture of France

Feb 18, 2021

But a brave French photojournalist more plausibly could stay on, and France wanted to remain central to world affairs through such relationships. This is the terrain Clark explores in her...

Rush Limbaugh Dies at 70; Turned Talk Radio Into a Right-Wing Attack Machine

Feb 18, 2021

Dozens of right-wing talkers cropped up on local radio stations emulating his divisive commentary. “There is no talk radio as we know it without Rush Limbaugh; it just doesn’t exist,”...

Robotic dogs and laughter therapy: 10 ways to combat loneliness and isolation while social distancing

Feb 18, 2021

Strict social distancing guidance advised the public to stop all non-essential travel and stay at home. While these measures were initially eased, social distancing measures remain in place, cases and...

Viruses can ‘hijack’ cellular process to block immune response

Feb 18, 2021

Research led by McGill University and Queen’s University Belfast has found that viruses can ‘hijack’ an existing molecular process in the cell in order to block the body’s antiviral immune...