From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via EurekAlert!: With a mate and a nest to protect, the male threespined stickleback is a fierce fish, chasing and biting other males until they go…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers using a new approach to identifying genes associated with depression have found that variants in a group of genes involved in transmission of signals by…
From the Columbia University Medical Center press release via MedicalXpress: Although schizophrenia is highly genetic in origin, the genes involved in the disorder have been difficult to identify. In the past few years, researchers have…
From the Elsevier press release via AlphaGalileo: There are a growing number of clues that immune and inflammatory mechanisms are important for the biology of schizophrenia. In a new study in Biological Psychiatry, Dr. Mar…
From the University of Toronto press release via EurekAlert!: It is time to put the nature versus nurture debate to rest and embrace growing evidence that it is the interaction between biology and environment in…
From the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) press release via Newswise: People with perfect pitch seem to possess their own inner pitch pipe, allowing them to sing a specific note without first hearing a reference…
From the Mayo Clinic press release via EurekAlert!: A gene linked to the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, heart disease and diabetes becomes less important to quality of life once people hit their 90s, a Mayo…
From the Norwegian Institute of Public Health press release: Vulnerability to major depression is linked with how satisfied we are with our lives. This association is largely due to genes. This is the main finding…
From the Elsevier press release via AlphaGalileo: A new study reinforces the finding that a region of the genome involved in immune system function, called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), is involved in the genetic…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified small variations in a number of genes that are closely linked to an…