Lemurs Take Advantage of What Others See, But Not Hear.
Lemurs can be sneaky. They’ll wait until a human’s back is turned to take a treat. But a new study shows that in the same situation, they don’t seem to…
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2013 | Christina Palmer, et.al – Using a social marketing framework to evaluate recruitment of a prospective study of genetic counseling and testing for the deaf community.
ISG faculty, Christina Palmer and Janet Sinsheimer, along with ISG associate, Patrick Boudreault, and their colleagues, have published a paper titled “Using a social marketing framework to evaluate recruitment of a…
Biologists Find an Evolutionary Facebook for Monkeys and Apes.
UCLA biologists reported last year on the evolution of 129 primate faces in species from Central and South America. This research team now reports on the faces of 139 Old…
As Babies, We Knew Morality.
Several years ago, an energetic young mother, Tia, was out and about with her infant Aimee when disaster struck: a group of men, accompanied by vicious dogs, surrounded the pair,…
Genes Without Patents.
As Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan questioned Myriad Genetics’ attorney about patenting genes, Chris Hansen rejoiced. The attorney said that yes, genes should be patentable. But it was only under…
Dartmouth Researcher Finds Novel Genetic Patterns That Make Us Rethink Biology and Individuality
Professor of Genetics Scott Williams, PhD, of the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (iQBS) at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has made two novel discoveries: first, a person can have…