Genetically Speaking, Mammals Are More Like Their Fathers
You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study from UNC School of Medicine researchers reveal that mammals are genetically more like their dads. Specifically,…
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Challenging Gender Identity: Biologists Say Gender Expands Across A Spectrum, Rather Than Simply Boy And Girl
The sex designation of your brain and body may not be as black and white as scientists have believed it to be. Instead gender may fall somewhere on a gray…
Unlocking the Key to Immunological Memory in Bacteria
A powerful genome editing tool may soon become even more powerful. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have unlocked the key to how bacteria are able to…
Xeroxed Gene May Have Paved the Way for Large Human Brain
Last week, researchers expanded the size of the mouse brain by giving rodents a piece of human DNA. Now another team has topped that feat, pinpointing a human gene that…
Allard Awarded the 2015 International ToxScholar Award
Patrick Allard, Assistant Professor with the Institute for Society and Genetics and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, was awarded the prestigious 2015 International ToxScholar Award. Founded in 1961, the…
Students Film a Mother’s Struggle to Buy Healthy Food on a Tight Budget
Vanessa Moreno knows what it’s like to feed a family on a tight budget. The fourth-year international development studies major watched her own mother, a single parent, do it when…