Sea snails – the picture shows a pteropod – play an important role in the marine food web. They are especially sensitive to ocean warming and acidification ...

A new study shows, for the first time, that the release of the body's own marijuana-like compounds is crucial to stress-induced analgesia -- the body's way of initially shielding pain after a serious ...

Researchers in Junying Yuan’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School report that they have identified a small molecule that interferes with a protein phosphatase in such a way that it enables cultured ...