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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Primate tourism, an economic benefit and conservation tool in many habitat countries, has exploded in popularity over the past two decades in places like…
– While ethnic Norwegian boys often bully because they want to have power over their victims, immigrant boys bully because have a need for affiliation, says…
And although 78 per cent said they would tell a family doctor that the prescription they had written would have to be dispensed off-label – outside the terms…
Paul R. Sanberg, DSc, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Center for Aging and Brain Repair at USF Health, wrote the commentary…
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have been evaluating the impact of antibiotic feeding in livestock production on the environment. This particular…
“By identifying risk factors, it may help guide treatment decisions, allow for early intervention and possibly reduce disability,” said study author Kevin…
The data came from the Nutritional Prevention of Cancer Trial (NPC), a large randomized, multi-center, clinical trial from the eastern United States, designed…
At the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Chicago (July 7-11, 2007), scientists will present findings on how to economically and…
“Some companies have made a sincere effort to put sucrose back in soda,” said Dr. Adam Drewnowski, director of the Nutritional Sciences Program at the…
The findings contrast with the United States where book reading declined markedly during a similar period.However, the number of Brits reading newspapers and…
A team of scientists at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh has found that a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet (containing sucrose) combined with physical…
As in the previous prostate cancer study, which was also conducted by USC researchers and published in the April 2007 edition of Nature Genetics, the…
The study of 72 married couples from Iowa found that wives, on average, exhibit greater situational power — in the form of domineering and dominant behaviors…
No one likes a cheater, even a single-celled one.New research from Rice University shows how cooperative single-celled amoebae rely on family ties to keep…
“The risk of suicide attempt among depressed patients treated with SSRI drugs was about one-third that of patients who were not treated with an SSRI,” said the…
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