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(Michigan Technological University) It's a naturally occurring brain chemical with an unwieldy name: 4-hydroxybutyrate (4-HB).

Taken by mouth, it can be abused or used as a date-rape drug.

Now, a team of Ohio and Michigan scientists have determined new routes by which 4-HB is metabolized by the body.

"This is new and important information," said K. Michael Gibson, professor and chair of biological sciences at Michigan Technological University and a member of the research team.

(Michigan Technological University) Their discovery could provide scientists with valuable clues as they search for a cure.

It can't come any too soon. Lead researcher Shuanglin Zhang started showing symptoms of the disease himself four years ago.

(Michigan Technological University) It's conventional wisdom in atmospheric science circles: Large raindrops fall faster than smaller drops because they're bigger and heavier.

And no raindrop can fall faster than its "terminal speed." Now a team of physicists has determined that it ain't necessarily so.

(Michigan Technological University) Physicists at Michigan Technological University have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths.

(Michigan Technological University) A team of researchers at Michigan Technological University is harnessing the computing muscle behind the leading video games to understand the most intricate of real-life systems.