Mother's Diet Modifies Her Child's DNA
A mother’s diet before conception can permanently affect how her child’s genes function, according to a study published in Nature Communications. The first such evidence of the effect in humans opens…
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A Marmoset Never Forgets
Scientists studying social learning in animals have shown how easy it can be to introduce a new behavior into a group and watch it spread from individual to individual. However,…
Sequencing the Tree of Life
Scientists working to sequence all manner of bacteria, Archaea, plants, and animals and to make these genomes publicly available hope to use the data to inform health, industrial, and environmental…
Altruistic Adolescents Less Likely to Become Depressed, Study Says
It is better to give than to receive — at least if you’re an adolescent and you enjoy giving, a new study suggests. The study found that 15- and 16-year-olds…
Cochlear Implant Gene Therapy
Cochlear implants are among the most successful bionic devices ever developed. Available since the 1970s, they have restored some measure of hearing to more than 300,000 people around the world….
Brain Size Matters When it Comes to Animal Self-Control
Chimpanzees may throw tantrums like toddlers, but their total brain size suggests they have more self-control than, say, a gerbil or fox squirrel, according to a new study of 36…