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https://www.science.org/content/article/obesity-drugs-linked-lower-addiction-rates-large-study-veterans

GLP-1 drugs linked to lower addiction rates in large study of veterans The treatments appeared to help prevent a wide range of substance use disorders and reduce serious harms from existing ones

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-some-people-get-drunk-their-own-gut-bacteria

How some people get drunk from their own gut bacteria Largest study so far of people with the rare “autobrewery syndrome” points to more culprit microbes

Caves on Earth as proxies for Martian subsurface environments | International Journal of Astrobiology | Cambridge Core Caves on Earth as proxies for Martian subsurface environments - Volume 24

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-term all-cause mortality.

Summer Research | UAMS Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The SURF program offers an excellent opportunity for you to learn about graduate level research through an interactive environment.

Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

Here's an update on antimicrobial resistance. It isn't cheery.

Antimicrobial Resistance | ASM.org From discovering new antibiotics, to implementing policies that steward existing drugs in the antimicrobial toolbox, this issue of Microcosm explores antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and how to combat one of the largest threats to global public health and the environment.

Some viruses can play a deadly game of hide and seek Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak years later. How do they survive? And how can they be kayoed?

Study: We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate.

This past summer, Lyon College student Levi Neal worked at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology to explore how psychedelics might counter the grip of opioids in the brain.

Read more about this research at: https://www.lyon.edu/news/posts/a-lyon-students-journey-from-lived-experience-to-lab-discoveries

The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance