From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Healthy adults carrying the gene APOE4 — the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) — may struggle to adapt their brain… Read more »
From the Research Society on Alcoholism press release: Epigenetics refers to how certain life circumstances can cause genes to be silenced or expressed, become dormant or active, over time. New research… Read more »
From the University of Arizona press release: Research has shown that how trusting a person is may depend, at least in part, on his or her genes. However, distrust does not… Read more »
From the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam press release: An international team of researchers has found, for the first time, seven risk genes for insomnia. With this finding the researchers have taken an… Read more »
From the King’s College London press release: Epigenetic changes present at birth — in genes related to addiction and aggression — could be linked to conduct problems in children, according… Read more »
From the Medical University of Vienna press release: A large-scale, international whole-genome analysis has now revealed for the first time that anorexia nervosa is associated with genetic anomalies on chromosome… Read more »
From the University of Cambridge press release: Our DNA influences our ability to read a person’s thoughts and emotions from looking at their eyes, suggests a new study published in the… Read more »
From the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Mice have a reputation for timidity. Yet when confronted with an unfamiliar peer, a mouse… Read more »
From the University of Cambridge press release: Our DNA influences our ability to read a person’s thoughts and emotions from looking at their eyes, suggests a new study published in… Read more »
From the UT Southwestern Medical Center press release: Scientists have identified more than 100 genes linked to memory, opening new avenues of research to better understand memory processing in the human… Read more »
