From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Politics and genetics have traditionally been considered non-overlapping fields, but over the past decade it has become clear that genes can influence political behavior, according to a…
From the University of Washington press release via EurekAlert!: A low dose of the sedative clonazepam alleviated autistic-like behavior in mice with a mutation that causes Dravet syndrome in humans, University of Washington researchers have…
From the University of Helsinki press release via EurekAlert!: The genetics research group, based at the University of Helsinki and the Folkhälsan Research Center and led by Professor Hannes Lohi, has in collaboration with an…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release via EurekAlert!: Acute stress alters the methylation of the DNA and thus the activity of certain genes. This is reported by researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum together with colleagues…
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: Many elderly people spend their last years alone. Spouses pass and children scatter. But being lonely is much more than a silent house and a lack of companionship.…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: Two papers that will appear in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, both receiving advance online release, may help identify gene variants that contribute to the risks of…
From the Texas Advanced Computing Center press release by Monica Kortsha via EurekAlert!: Singing mice (scotinomys teguina) are not your average lab rats. Their fur is tawny brown instead of the common white albino strain;…
From the Boston University School of Medicine press release: Investigators at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System have identified a new gene linked to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).…
From the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) press release via EurekAlert!: If you’re sick from stress, a new research report appearing in the August 2012 issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests…
From the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland press release via ScienceDaily: New research conducted by neuroscientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) published in Nature Medicine has identified a new gene…