Cody’s First Task
2015 | Soraya de Chadarevian – Human Population Studies and the World Health Organization
ISG professor, Soraya de Chadarevian, has published a paper titled “Human Population Studies and the…
Discovery of Consoling Behavior in Prairie Voles May Benefit Autism Research
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have discovered that a social…
Dog Domestication May Have Increased Harmful Genetic Changes, UCLA Biologists Report
The domestication of dogs may have inadvertently caused harmful genetic changes, a UCLA-led study suggests….
Epigenetics: How Social Behavior Can Be Reprogrammed In Ants…And Possibly Humans, Too
While many believe behavior is largely defined by genetic makeup and environmental factors, new research…
Scientists Sequence First Ancient Irish Human Genomes
A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast has…
Researchers Identify Intelligence Gene Networks
A group of scientists led by Imperial College London researcher Michael Johnson has identified two…
Is Seeing Believing? People Are Surprisingly Bad at Identifying Where Sights and Sounds Originate
Our vision and hearing aren’t as reliable as we might think, according to a study…
Biologists are Engineering Kill Switches for GM Microbes
To keep old trains running, operators had to keep a firm grip on a dead…
First Discovery of A Hibernating Primate Outside Madagascar
Hibernation is a state of energy conservation during which body temperature and metabolism are drastically…
Human Gene Editing Gets Green Light
Human gene-editing research, even on embryos, is needed and should go ahead, with one major…
Singing in the Brain
Male zebra finches, small songbirds native to central Australia, learn their songs by copying what…
Biologists induce flatworms to grow heads and brains of other species
Biologists at Tufts University have succeeded in inducing one species of flatworm to grow heads…