News Tag: Scott Hansen

Solving the 175-year-old medical mystery of anesthesia’s effects

How does general anesthesia cause loss of consciousness? Despite its 175-year-history of use by the U.S. medical system, science has been unable to definitively answer that question, until now.

Drunken flies reveal important step to intoxication

When alcohol reaches our nerve cells, the alcohol connects with intermediary molecules on the neuron’s membrane surface to produce its intoxicating effects, indirectly.

Researchers Develop Assay to Help Identify New Pain Medication Candidates

Researchers have developed a test that will help scientists identify new drug candidates for treating pain that have fewer side effects, like addiction.

TSRI Researchers Discover Surprising Process Behind Sense of Touch

Biologists on the Florida campus of Scripps Research have discovered a new mechanism that likely underlies how we feel force or touch.