The way we feel about being touched—and the way we touch others—is shaped by our personal and generational affective history. Touch inequalities, too, are often transmitted through generations, a new study from the University ...
Feb 7, 2019
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Social relations are important for people. But this does not mean that solitude is always harmful. On the contrary, research shows that a small minority of older people are alone and that a considerable proportion of them ...
Nov 1, 2022
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A team led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has overcome a major biological hurdle in an effort to find improved treatments for patients with a rare disease called methylmalonic acidemia (MMA). Using genetically ...
Jul 29, 2013
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On Feb. 1, Britain's fertility regulator approved the country's first research application to use a new gene editing technique known as Crispr on human embryos.
Feb 3, 2016
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The lab of Stephen Waxman, Bridget M. Flaherty Professor of Neurology and of Neuroscience, has identified the key role of sodium channels arrayed on nerve cells in experience of pain.
Oct 24, 2019
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In a new study, researchers found large birthweight inequalities among the descendants of non-Western immigrants compared to the descendants of Swedes. The largest differences were found in the third generation. The researchers ...
Apr 25, 2022
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Children are an underutilized source of potential antibody therapies to counteract the "ever-evolving" COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Nov 9, 2023
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From science to implementation: How do we know if humankind is moving in the right direction towards global sustainability? The ambitious aim of the SDGs is a global call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ...
Mar 16, 2021
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Generation X adults prepare an average of 10 meals a week, and eat out or buy fast food an average of three times a week, according to a University of Michigan report that details the role food plays in the lives of Americans ...
Apr 26, 2012
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Sharon Browning of the University of Washington and colleagues developed a method to estimate historical effective population size, which is the number of individuals who pass on their genes to the next generation, to reveal ...
May 24, 2018
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