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Perceived facial similarities studied
Sep 19, 2006 |
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U.S.-led research has found judgments of facial similarity are highly predictive of genetic similarity.
DNA clues to inform conservation in Africa
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May 23, 2007 |
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Tracing the evolutionary history of wildlife could improve global habitat conservation, a major Cardiff University study has found.
Ameobas: Keeping it in the family
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Nov 25, 2008 |
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Starving "social amoebae" called Dictyostelium discoideum seek the support of "kin" when they form multi-cellular organisms made up of dead stalks and living spores, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Ri ...
Sequencing thousand and one genomes
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Sep 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, reported the completion of the first genomes of wild strains of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. ...
Contraceptive pill influences partner choice
Aug 13, 2008 |
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The contraceptive pill may disrupt women's natural ability to choose a partner genetically dissimilar to themselves, research at the University of Liverpool has found.
The genes in your congeniality: Researchers identify genetic influence in social networks
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Can't help being the life of the party? Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part ...
New genomic technique uncovers transcriptome of a reef-building coral
May 12, 2009 |
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Using a new technique for cDNA preparation combined with the latest sequencing methods, researchers have uncovered the larval transcriptome of a reef-building coral (Acropora millepora). Their study, descri ...
Genetic link to heart failure
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A team of researchers, at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, has identified a group of 12 genetic variants in the HSPB7 gene that is associated with heart failure in humans.
Genes influence people's economic choices
Oct 01, 2007 |
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An international team of researchers including an MIT graduate student has demonstrated for the first time that genes exert influence on people's behavior in a very common experimental economic game.
Unnatural selection: Birth control pills may alter choice of partners
Oct 07, 2009 |
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There is no doubt that modern contraception has enabled women to have unprecedented control over their own fertility. However, is it possible that the use of oral contraceptives is interfering with a woman's ability to choose, ...
Lack of Social Interaction Affects Health Outcomes of Breast Cancer
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Social environment can play an important role in the biology of disease, including breast cancer, and lead to significant differences in health outcome, according to results of a study published in Cancer Pr ...
Homosexual behavior due to genetics and environmental factors
Jun 29, 2008 |
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Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins.
DNA reveals hooded seals have wanderlust
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May 09, 2007 |
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Researchers have discovered that hooded seals, a mysterious mammal that spends all but a few days each year in the ocean, are all closely related.
Homosexual behaviour due to genetics and environmental factors
Jun 30, 2008 |
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Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world’s largest study of twins.
How pathogens have shaped genes involved in our immune system
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study on human genetics on various populations across the world conducted by researchers from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS (France) has shown how pathogens can shape the patterns of genetic ...
