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Proteins from salmon blood can stop bleeding and alleviate pain. In pens and hatcheries along the coasts of New Brunswick, Canada, and Maine, USA, young salmon…

Scientists are still not really sure if, or how, magnetic shark repellents work. Sharks get a bad rap, though sometimes for good reason. At times they can…

Addiction is a chronic disease that can destroy the lives of individuals and their families. Researchers are teasing apart the complex neural, genetic and behavioural factors…

A major overhaul of the grant and peer review system at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is underway. But will finances and objections from researchers…

There are signs that strategies to address prescription drug abuse are starting to work but will an increase in illegal drug use be the payoff? Prescription…

In Maine, indigenous tribes have severed ties with the state. There are no border guards when you cross the bridge from the tiny village of Princeton,…