(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) A genetic finding could help explain why influenza becomes a life-threatening disease to some people while it has only mild effects in others. New research led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has identified for the first time a human gene that influences how we respond ...

Two large international meta-analyses have discovered convincing new evidence that interleukin-6 receptor (IL6R), a protein that plays a role in inflammatory signaling, has a causal affect on the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). The findings, published Online First in The Lancet, indicate that drugs targeting this IL6R-mediated signaling inflammatory ...

(University of California - Riverside) Stephanie Turner Chen, a University of California, Riverside, alumna, has received the prestigious Larry Sandler Memorial Award given by the Genetics Society of America to the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation of the year in Drosophila genetics. Turner Chen received the award last week at the ...

US scientists studying links between genes and scouting behavior in bees have discovered some intriguing similarities in human and insect novelty-seeking behaviour that suggests the trait, which is assumed to have evolved separately in these lineages, may share some genetic components. Gene Robinson, an entomologist and geneticist ...

The risk of abusing drugs is greater - even for adopted children - if the family environment in which they are raised is dysfunctional, according to a new study conducted by a collaborative team from Virginia Commonwealth University and Lund University in Sweden. Previous research suggests that drug abuse is ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Feb. 29, 2012) -- A rare and endangered monkey in an African equatorial rainforest is providing a look into our climatic future through its DNA. Its genes show that wild drills ( Mandrillus leucophaeus ), already an overhunted species, may see a dramatic population decline if the ...

A rare and endangered monkey in an African equatorial rainforest is providing a look into our climatic future through its DNA. Its genes show that wild drills (Mandrillus leucophaeus), already an overhunted species, may see a dramatic population decline if the forest dries out and vegetation becomes sparser amid warming ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. In a look at how major stressors during childhood can change a person's biological risk for psychiatric disorders, researchers at Butler Hospital have discovered a genetic alteration at the root of the association. The research, published online in PLoS ONE on January 25, 2012, suggests ...

(Brown University) Paper finds epigenetic effect of psychological difficulty in childhood on an important regulator of stress response. The research may help explain a biological link between adversity in youth and later depression or anxiety.

An assistant professor at Sam Houston State University, College of Criminal Justice is working to unlock the mysteries surrounding the role that genetics and environmental influences play on criminal and antisocial behavior.

A series of 15 scientific papers published this week in the journals of the Genetics Society of America (Genetics and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics) put North Carolina at the epicenter of a scientific resource called the Collaborative Cross - a "library" of genetic diversity that scientists believe can help fast-track important discoveries ...

A large-scale study analyzing metabolic compounds in rice grains conducted by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) and their collaborators has identified 131 rice metabolites and clarified the genetic and environmental factors that influence their production. The findings provide a natural way to bioengineer improved rice grain varieties ...