News tagged with behavioral traits
The neurobiology of musicality related to the intrinsic attachment behavior?
May 26, 2009 |
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Music is social communication between individuals -- humming of lullabies attach infant to parent and singing or playing music adds croup cohesion. The neurobiology of music perception and production is likely to be related ...
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When it comes to sleep, few of us are getting enough
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Sleep deprivation, it turns out, is colorblind.
'Metabolic taxation': Even oysters pay taxes
Mar 18, 2010 |
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In physical, as in financial growth, it's not what you make but what you keep that counts, USC marine biologists believe.
Scientists take animal breeding to the next level
Mar 18, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Alberta scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of two influential bulls, one beef and one dairy, the first animals to have been fully sequenced in Canada.
Playing on our instincts: Psychology professor says 'supernormal stimuli' drive many unnatural urges
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Mar 18, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have long known that lab animals’ behavior can be manipulated by artificially stimulating their natural instincts. Over-stimulating animals can provoke such extreme responses that ...
New Study Eyes Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 18, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have long been puzzled by large societies in which strangers routinely engage in voluntary acts of kindness, respect and mutual benefit even though there is often an individual cost involved.
Tryptophan-enriched diet reduces pig aggression
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Feeding the amino acid tryptophan to young female pigs as part of their regular diet makes them less aggressive and easier to manage, according to a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators.
Manufacturing antibodies
Mar 18, 2010 |
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New antibodies and recombinant proteins with a key signaling role in immune response to disease have been produced through collaboration between molecular immunology institutes in the Czech Republic and Germany and a private ...
New advances vastly expand versatility of optogenetics brain-research technique
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Recently, brain researchers have gained a powerful new way to troubleshoot neural circuits associated with depression, Parkinson's disease and other conditions in small animals such as rats. They use an optogenetics technology, ...
New statistical method for genetic studies could cut computation time from years to hours
Mar 18, 2010 |
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In the ongoing quest to identify the genetic factors involved in disease, scientists have increasingly turned to genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, which enable the scanning of up to a million genetic markers in thousands ...
Smokers Who Quit Gradually or Cold Turkey Have Similar Success
Mar 17, 2010 |
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Although many smokers try to quit by selecting a 'quit day' and going cold turkey, a new Cochrane review finds that quitting gradually might work just as well.
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