Nature or Nurture? Innate Social Behaviors in the Mouse Brain
Adult male mice have a simple repertoire of innate, or instinctive, social behaviors: When encountering a female, a male mouse will try to mate with it, and when encountering another…
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New Study Shows How Bee’s Brain Functions to Guide It Home
Bees use their vision to navigate, but until now little was known about what happens inside their brains — which are smaller than a grain of rice — as they…
One Gene Mutation May Cause Zika's Devastating Birth Defects
Sixty years ago, a team of scientists went looking for yellow fever in the jungles that line the northwestern edge of Lake Victoria. What they found instead, in the blood of…
UCLA Biologists Slow Aging, Extend Lifespan of Fruit Flies
In research that potentially could delay the onset of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and other diseases of aging, biologists have produced a genetic one-two punch that…
Once Invincible Superbug Squashed by ‘Superteam’ of Antibiotics
The golden age of antibiotics may be drawing to a close. The recent discovery of E. coli carrying mcr-1 and ndm-5 — genes that make the bacterium immune to last-resort…
Kent State Researchers Help Find Pathologic Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease in Aged Chimpanzee Brains
Dementia affects one-third of all people older than 65 years in the United States. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive, irreversible brain disease that results in…