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New Migraine Drug Can Even Tackle the Most Difficult Cases, Study Finds
A recently approved preventative migraine drug called atogepant (branded Qulipta) seems to help even the most difficult cases, preliminary research out this week has found. The study showed that patients who hadn’t responded to other treatments experienced noticeably fewer days without migraine while on atogepant than those given a placebo. The Food and Drug Administration…
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First Complete Map of a Fly Brain Has Uncanny Similarities to AI Neural Networks
To most humans, a fruit fly larva doesn’t look like much: a pale, wriggling, rice grain-shaped maggot, just a few millimetres in length. Yet, in their own way, fly larvae lead rich and interesting lives full of sensory inputs, social behaviours, and learning. If you’ve ever doubted that a lot goes on inside a maggot’s…
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Oxytocin’s Reputation as the ‘Love Hormone’ Might Be Overrated
New research Friday might complicate the perception of oxytocin as the so-called “love hormone.” Scientists have found that prairie voles that were genetically bred without oxytocin receptors can still mate with others and breastfeed their children — behaviours long closely linked to the hormone. While oxytocin is still important to voles and other animals, including…
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U.S. FDA Approves First-of-Its-Kind Drug to Delay Type 1 Diabetes
With type 1 diabetes, the body attacks itself. A person’s own immune system destroys the pancreas over time, leaving the critical organ unable to produce insulin and regulate blood sugar. Almost 1.9 million people, including about 244,000 children, live with the life-altering illness. It is a disease with no cure or means of preventing it,…