genetics

Octopus genome sequenced

This new scientific milestone will allow, among other things, to improve the design of flexible arms for robots.

Does eye color predispose to alcoholism?

They find a new proof of the possible genetic component of alcoholism.

This is how anxiety is transmitted from parents to children

Three specific areas of the brain could explain how both inherited depression and anxiety develop.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

Deoxyribonucleic acid. More than a substance it looks like a tongue twister.

Knockout

It is defined, according to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), as the inactivation of specific genes used in laboratory organisms to study genetic function.

Creativity and psychosis share the same genetic origin

It has been hinted for quite some time that psychosis and creativity bear certain similarities (history is full of crazy or eccentric geniuses like Vincent van Gogh). Many studies have concluded that highly creative people tend to have more “cognitive disinhibition” than the rest of the people, which leads to them filtering much less the stimuli or data that surround them, a characteristic that also occurs in psychopathic disorders mild.

That you laugh (and smile) more or less depends on your genes

Why do some people smile so easily and others find it so difficult? A new study carried out by a team of scientists from Northwestern University (USA) and the University of Geneva (Switzerland) has determined that emotional reactivity depends on our DNA. The work has been published in the American Psychological Association journal Emotion.

They identify a genetic mutation associated with Kallmann syndrome

A new study led by researchers from University College London (UK) and the University of Milan (Italy) has identified a genetic mutation that may be responsible for a medical condition that delays or prevents puberty, better known as Kallmann syndrome. The study has been published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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