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08/17/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Understanding cravings: Food preferences are linked to dietary needs; dopamine may play a role in what you choose to eat, research suggests

For the first time ever, researchers are understanding a nutrient-specific hunger mechanism in living organisms. Specifically, a team from John Hopkins University has pinpointed the neurons responsible for protein cravings in fruit flies – neurons that the team was able to turn on and off. As part of their study, the researchers deprived fruit flies of […]

09/26/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Treatment with antioxidants may halt progress of neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson’s

A recent study by scientists from Northwestern University discovered that treating neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease (PD) with antioxidants may halt degeneration and improve neuronal function, as reported by the Science Daily. Moreover, the study, which was published in Science, found that mouse models of PD did not have the same abnormalities that were found […]

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