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Putting the brakes on heroin relapse

by Amy Ward, Sutton Scarboro and Kathryn Carter, Medical University of South Carolina A star-shaped cell known as an astrocyte. Credit: Anna Kruyer, Medical University of South Carolina Neuroscientists from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report in Science Advances that star-shaped brain cells known as astrocytes can “turn off” neurons involved in relapse to heroin....

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Putting the brakes on a bacterium that is a major cause of GI distress

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA AT AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 1, 2022) – As we head outdoors this summer, scientists are working to clip the long, flexible appendages that enable the common bacterium Campylobacter jejuni to make its way from undercooked poultry and natural waterways into our intestinal tract where it makes millions of us sick each...