OCD rodents keeping forests alive
The obsessive thieving and stashing of seeds by rodents provides a vital seed-dispersal service in tropical forests, say scientists whose…
Gene therapy painkiller gets body to produce its own pain relief drugs
University of Michigan scientists running a human trial of the first ever gene therapy treatment for pain relief say that…
Genetic regions linked to animal tameness identified
A team of scientists from Germany, Russia and Sweden have identified the regions of genetic code that are responsible for…
Newly discovered non-coding genes control critical disease processes
Researchers from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have discovered a vast new…
Brainier men have better sperm
Reporting their findings in the journalIntelligence, researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry in the UK say that men with higher…
Political Participation Flagged In Genes
The decision to vote is partly genetic, say researchers James H. Fowler and Christopher T. Dawes, of the University of…
Evolution Appears To Be A Start-Stop Affair
Some regions of the human genome have been hotspots for acquiring duplicated DNA sequences, but only at specific time-points during…
Switching Genes On And Off To Cure Disease
Researchers from the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center are exploring a new approach to the treatment of…