sensitivity

Modern medicine offers "peel and stick" solutions like nicotine or contraceptive patches that you can put right on your skin without needing to visit a doctor for an injection or procedure. Now, researchers have found that applying a…

While scientists have broadly agreed that a fraction of the alcohol people consume is broken down before it reaches the bloodstream in a process called first-pass metabolism, they have been uncertain whether this process occurs in the…

One epigenetic factor as well as one organic anion transporter (OAT1), whose function in the nervous system was hitherto unknown, contribute to the development of chronic pain. The underlying molecular mechanism was identified by a team of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a paper published on February 23, 2022 in Nature Machine Intelligence, a team of scientists at the Max…

A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children ages 1 to 3 years safely desensitized most of them to peanut and induced remission of peanut…

Theory has it that disgust sensitivity -- how intensely a person is repulsed by images, ideas or situations that could be considered terribly gross or merely unpleasant -- is an evolutionary trait that initially helped humans avoid eating…

Growth outlook in India beyond the Covid-19 pandemic and tightening of liquidity conditions are two key macroeconomic factors that will lead to volatility in Indian equity markets in the year ahead, global markets research firm Nomura said…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An illustration of the UK Government's website to book coronavirus disease (COVID-19) home test kits, in London, Britain, April 24, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Illustration By Amna Karimi and Pushkala Aripaka…

How can we shift from a state of inattentiveness to one of highest attention? The locus coeruleus, literally the "blue spot," is a tiny cluster of cells at the base of the brain. As the main source of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline, it…

What you eat influences your taste for what you might want to eat next. So claims a University of California, Riverside, study performed on fruit flies. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, offers a better understanding of…