September 16, 2025 — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USANew research published in PLOS Biology reveals that several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes previously linked to social behavior in humans. According to Ian Traniello and colleagues, these findings point to ancient molecular roots of social behavior that have been conserved across species. Understanding Individual Differences in Sociability In social species, individuals display varying levels of sociability — some are highly connected and…
A new study published today in the journal Pediatrics (Epub ahead of print) found that nearly half of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are…
Atopic dermatitis (often called ecszema) is a chronic, relapsing inflammatory skin condition affecting as much as one-fifth of children and 1-3% of adults in…
The study, which is published online in PLOS ONE, points to the involvement of specific genes and alterations in their expression as influencing the risk for…
From email to Twitter, blogs to word processors, computer programs provide countless communications opportunities. While social applications have dominated the…
The European Commission ICT theme has funded a proposal for a Coordination Action project entitled “ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY and DESIGN for NANOELECTRONICS”…
Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, a University of Missouri public health…
The world’s needs for energy and raw materials are constantly growing, and the search for readily accessible and inexpensive material for energy applications…
The underlying rationale seems to be that students are better able to learn when they can control the flow of their experience, or when their learning is…
“It’s an intriguing result, suggesting that a behavioral intervention could enhance a key aspect of empathy,” says lead author Jennifer Mascaro, a…
The study, published in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, uses data from functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging to identify…
The findings, published in a PLoS ONE article of the Public Library of Science, offer new insights on mechanisms involved in regeneration of insulin-producing…
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, head injury is the most common cause of death and serious disability from bicycle crashes. The best…
These people are also more satisfied with their job and perceive it more as a calling. This is the result of two large-scale studies conducted by a team of…
Neuroscientists previously established that this region, which is called the fusiform face area (FFA) and is located in the temporal lobe, is responsible for a…
Fueling the trend are rising labor costs in emerging countries, high oil prices and increasing transportation costs, global risks such as political instability…
“These long awaited results constitute a further milestone in the treatment of patients with early breast cancer over-expressing HER2/neu, corresponding to a…
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