'Happy hour' gene discovery suggests cancer drugs might treat alcoholism

Friday, May 22, 2009 - 10:15 in Health & Medicine

A class of drugs already approved as cancer treatments might also help to beat alcohol addiction. That's the conclusion of a discovery in flies of a gene, dubbed happyhour, that has an important and previously unknown role in controlling the insects' response to alcohol...

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