Tag: genes
How your genes interact with your environment changes your disease risk...
Arun Durvasula, University of Southern California
Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she told me,...
Machine learning cracked the protein-folding problem and won the 2024 Nobel...
Marc Zimmer, Connecticut College
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry recognized Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Baker for...
Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes...
Karla Kaun, Brown University
Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as...
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins...
Stephen Wooding, University of California, Merced
The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food...
What the great work from home experiment has taught us about...
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation
This is a transcript of episode 8 of The Conversation...
Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first...
Melinda A. Yang, University of Richmond
The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that,...
Brain scientists haven’t been able to find major differences between women’s...
Ari Berkowitz, University of Oklahoma
People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton...
Not all genes are necessary for survival – these species dropped...
Jessica M. Velez, University of Tennessee; Alison Gerken, Kansas State University, and Amey Redkar, Universidad de Córdoba
Humans, the latest tally suggests, have approximately 21,000...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
