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Caltech scientists discover aggression-promoting pheromone in flies
Have you ever found yourself struggling to get your order taken at a crowded bar or lunch counter, only to walk away in disgust as more aggressive customers…
Microbes help mothers protect kids from allergies
Researchers in Marburg, Germany find that exposure to environmental bacteria triggers a mild inflammatory response in pregnant mice that renders their…
Study finds new relationship between gene duplication and alternative splicing in plants
The research will be published online in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “This inverse relationship has been previously reported…
Stem Cells Battle for Space
Though the manner in which some cells win this competition is well known to be the survival of the fittest, how stem cells duke it out for space and survival…
Transcription Factors Guide Differences in Human and Chimp Brain Function
The study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that broad differences in the gene activity of humans and of chimpanzees, affecting nearly…
Superior offspring without genetic modification
When two gene pools combine, you might expect the characteristics of the offspring to end up somewhere in the middle between those of its parents. But children…