Scientists Just Solved a Major Piece of the Opioid Puzzle
Scientists Just Solved a Major Piece of the Opioid Puzzle
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 9, 20185m 57s
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Show Notes
When it comes to tackling the opioid crisis, public health workers start with the drugs: fentanyl, morphine, heroin. But biochemists have a different focus: Not the opioids, but opioid receptors—the proteins the drugs latch onto within the body. These receptors embed themselves in the walls of cells throughout the brain and peripheral nervous system.
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