Oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) signaling influences complex social behaviors in diverse species, including social monogamy in prairie voles. How Oxtr regulates specific components of social attachment ...

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

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Like most human traits, blue eyes are determined by genes, and no two people have exactly the same hue. It works a lot like ...

In a new JAMA Dermatology study, scientists at King's College London found that changes in two parts of the genome work ...

Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence researchers have identified over 60 transcriptomic neuron types in the ...

This gene-gene interaction is a rare phenomenon in human genetics ... Such genetic variants, which are associated with protection from infection, may also make people more prone to certain immune ...

A new study links a particular gene to the origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us develop speech.

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...