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…
New research suggests practical options to unlock the potential of the southern African livestock industry and help millions lift themselves out of poverty…
The group approach is unique in integrating body and mind, using the language of the body as a form of counselling to help participants who have presented to…
These are the main findings of a study on grafting of new neurons to the brain in patients with Parkinson’s disease. The study, headed by a team of researchers…
The findings of the Twin Spine Study, an ongoing research program started in 1991, have led to a dramatic paradigm shift in the way disc degeneration is…
In airplane engines or in some industrial combustion chambers, combustion reactions take place in extreme conditions of heat and pressure, making these…
The research award, which has been made by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Welsh Office for Research and Development for Health and Social Care, will fund a…
The study involved 486 people age 60 to 90 who had no dementia. Of those, 134 people had experienced at least one episode of depression that prompted them to…
For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week.The findings are part of a detailed study of housework trends,…
But that study could not answer the question of whether low LDL (low-density lipoprotein) levels were present in study participants before they were diagnosed…
Dr. Thomas Montine, University of Washington, presented the study results at Experimental Biology 2008 in San Diego on April 6. His presentation was part of…
Robert Warren Gould, a graduate student in the laboratory of Michael A. Nader, Ph.D., presented the study results Sunday at Experimental Biology 2008 in San…
Small changes in schools lead to big results when it comes to preventing childhood obesity, according to a study published in the April issue of Pediatrics….
They also consumed larger quantities of sweetened beverages and fast food, were categorized as heavy TV watchers, and read or studied less than teens without…
Humans rarely move their eyes smoothly. As our eyes flit from object to object, the visual system briefly shuts off to cut down visual “noise,” said Steven J….
Attractive women plus cool cars equal brisk sales for auto dealers as men snap up those cars, prompted—or so advertising theory goes—by the association. But is…
The work examines how cells in the body communicate with each other through cytokines, signaling molecules that direct a wide range of activities such as cell…
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