Hundreds of scientific studies have been conducted over the years to find the genes underlying common human traits, from eye color to intelligence and physical and mental illnesses.
Evolution
Apr 27, 2023
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Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed a tool to monitor communications within the brain in a way never before possible, and it has already offered an explanation for why Alzheimer's drugs ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 9, 2021
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A new study from researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in Science Advances show that inactivation of a protein complex that controls gene repression leads to loss of neuronal identity of dopamine-producing cells ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2022
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Researchers from the Turku PET Centre, Finland, have observed that the length of daylight hours impacts opioid receptor levels in brown fat. When daylight hours shorten, the receptor activity levels elevate. A similar phenomenon ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 7, 2022
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Adhesion GPCRs are a group of G protein-coupled receptors associated with many body functions and diseases. However, they have not yet been sufficiently studied to be used for therapies. Two research groups at the Rudolf ...
Biochemistry
Mar 14, 2023
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Since 2020, firearms have been the number one cause of death among children and teens in the United States, surpassing even car accidents, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2022, more than ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2023
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Google announced Wednesday it was teaming up with university scientists to use its computing platform to accelerate efforts in genomics research.
Business
Jun 24, 2015
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Gun-related deaths are at a record high, according to a recent report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), rising 35 percent during the first year of the pandemic. Northwestern researcher Linda Teplin, ...
Social Sciences
May 16, 2022
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A two-step task commonly used to study people's decision-making behaviors does not appear to be effective for training people to rely more on goal-oriented behaviors and less on habitual behaviors. Elmar Grosskurth of Inselspital ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 14, 2019
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Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGlus), which belong to class C G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family, play key roles in modulating neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. The mGlus ...
Biotechnology
Jun 17, 2021
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