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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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Technology captures tumors' genetic profile, guides cancer treatment

The findings, published online today on the Nature Genetics Web site, may help relieve a bottleneck between scientists' expanding knowledge of the genetic…

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Psychologists show that 'money changes everything'

Now psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis have published a paper to support that claim. Studying delayed gratification and risk, the…

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Pycnogenol: Natural Glucose Absorption Delay 190 Times Stronger

A new study to be published in an upcoming edition of the journal of Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice reveals that French maritime pine tree extract…

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Common anesthetic may induce cell death, generation of Alzheimer's-associated protein

In the Feb. 7 Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and colleagues describe how isoflurane may set off a process in…

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New Studies Support Vitamin D’s Role in Cancer Prevention

The work was conducted by a core team of cancer prevention specialists at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and…

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Immigration Trends Impact Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage Rates

The findings suggest that the growing number of Hispanic and Asian immigrants to the United States led to more marriages within these groups, and fewer…

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How Parental Reactions to Hardship Shape Kids’ Outcomes

A major new study sheds light on how family income affects children, finding that it is how parents experience material hardship—not income alone–that affects…

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North America’s Biggest Climate Change in 65 Million Years

The overwhelming majority of previous climate-change studies on the 400,000-year transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs, about 33.5 million years…

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Loneliness Associated with Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Previous studies have shown that social isolation, or having few interactions with others, is associated with an increased risk of dementia and cognitive…

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How Race, Gender, and Insurance Shape Chest Pain Testing

Chest pain is the most common initial symptom in patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease. Tests such as electrocardiography, chest radiography as well…

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Private Schools in Philadelphia: No Better Outcomes Found

While significant academic gains were made from 2002 to 2006 by students across Philadelphia, private managers who were given extra funds to run 45 elementary…

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South Asian Immigrants Face Increased Heart Disease Risk

The trouble, Medical College of Georgia researchers suspect, is that their high-density lipoprotein, or so-called good cholesterol, doesn’t protect many of…

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Two-thirds of nursing students believe it’s wrong to lie to patients – twice as many as in 1983

UK researchers recreated a 1983 survey of 176 nursing students by posing the same questions to 618 students at a School of Nursing in Greater Manchester.As…

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Advancing Dosimetry in Radiotherapy with Monte Carlo Techniques

It allows to carry out calculations taking into account all the physical magnitudes that come into play when the particle beam making up the radiation acts on…

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Mood-Food Connection: How Emotions Influence Comfort Eating

In the January issue of the Journal of Marketing, Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing, Applied Economics and Management at Cornell, and two…

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Efficacy and Safety of Oral Phenylephrine: Systematic Review

BACKGROUND: Oral phenylephrine is used as a decongestant, yet there is no published systematic review supporting its efficacy and safety.OBJECTIVE: To assess…

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