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Shared Genetic Mechanisms Link Social Behavior in Bees and Humans

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…

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How Immune System Regulators Impact Type 1 Diabetes Risk

The gradual reduction in their regulating capacity seems to play a critical role in the onset of type 1 diabetes, as demonstrated in the latest study by Dr….

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Health Insurance Co-Payments Impact Mammogram Access

When faced with even a modest health insurance co-payment for a mammogram, significantly fewer women receive these potentially life-saving breast cancer…

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Brits’ latest attitudes to marriage, relationships, families and sex revealed in new report

The report, entitled ‘New families? Tradition and change in modern relationships’, is published today (23 January 2008) by the National Centre for Social…

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How Abstinence-Plus Programs Reduce HIV Risk Behaviors

HIV and AIDS are huge threats to human health. Each day in 2005 around 7,600 people died from HIV-related causes and a further 38.6 million people were living…

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Understanding Parental Alienation Syndrome in Divorce Cases

In the 1980’s, PAS was defined by scientist Richard Gardner of Columbia University. Men are usually the target parent, since in most cases the mother has…

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Link Between Gut Flora and Eczema in Infants Explained

“A diversified intestinal flora seems to be better at stimulating the immune defense,” says Göran Molin, professor of food hygiene at the Faculty of…

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Zanzibar Study: Safe Co-Delivery of Three Anti-Parasitic Drugs

The study shows the safety of delivering three drugs simultaneously – ivermectin, albendazole and praziquantel – in order to tackle three diseases,…

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Study Examines Diversity Issues in Investors in People Award

A new study of almost 15,000 people by Nottingham University Business School found that a wider range of minority groups suffer disadvantage with regard to…

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Understanding Alexithymia: Why Some Struggle to Express Emotions

According to the clinical literature alexithymia tends to evoke negative countertransference reactions in the therapist, such as boredom and dullness.However,…

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New Implants Combine Radiation and Chemotherapy for Brain Tumors

The study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery, revealed that patients treated with simultaneous implantation of radioactive seeds…

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Face facts: People don't stand out in crowds

Why is it difficult to pick out even a familiar face in a crowd? We all experience this, but the phenomenon has been poorly understood until now. The results…

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MRSA Evolution Insights: New Findings from NIAID Study

The study, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of NIH, resolves debate about the molecular evolution of CA-MRSA in the…

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£12M Investment to Enhance Operational Research in LANCS

The LANCS initiative, supported with a Science and Innovation Award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), will bring about a…

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New European Project Builds Gene-Disease Knowledge Base

As the heart of this, a large integrated genetic variation catalogue will be built to arm researchers with valuable information in the battle against disorders…

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Do Today’s Young People Really Think They Are So Extraordinary?

Now research is beginning to support this notion. An article appearing in the February issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for…

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Non-Invasive Method Reveals Headbanging Benefits for Women

Jesse Ruan of the Ford Motor Company and colleagues at Tianjin University of Science and Technology have devised a non-invasive method for determining and…

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