170 articles from FRIDAY 11.6.2021
Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk for addiction to opioids and ultraviolet rays
- ScienceDaily
- 21/6/11 23:40
Lab animals deficient in vitamin D crave and become dependent on opioids, which is curbed when normal levels of the vitamin are restored. Human health records indicate that people with low vitamin D are more likely to use and misuse opioids. Study results suggest a potential role for vitamin D supplementation in fighting opioid addiction.
New discovery shows human cells can write RNA sequences into DNA
- ScienceDaily
- 21/6/11 23:40
In a discovery that challenges long-held dogma in biology, researchers show that mammalian cells can convert RNA sequences back into DNA, a feat more common in viruses than eukaryotic cells.
Edge of Pine Island Glacier's ice shelf is ripping apart, causing key Antarctic glacier to gain speed
- ScienceDaily
- 21/6/11 23:40
Pine Island Glacier's ice shelf lost about one-fifth of its total area between 2017 and 2020, in three dramatic collapses. Meanwhile the glacier sped up by 12 percent. The rest of the ice shelf, the authors say, could disappear much sooner than previous studies had suggested.
Queen’s birthday list honours key figures in UK Covid vaccine drive
Taskforce chief Kate Bingham gets damehood and Oxford research leaders also rewardedKey figures in the battle against Covid-19 and Britain’s vaccine success have been rewarded in the Queen’s birthday honours list, with vaccines taskforce chair Kate Bingham getting a damehood.Honours are also bestowed on two leaders of the research teams at the Oxford Vaccine Centre who developed and...