Transcription factors that tune the expression of multiple genes could be key players in regulating behavior, but scientists need to scout for them. Peter Hamilton, a neuroscientist at Virginia ...

Your "roommate's" genes could be influencing the bacteria living in your gut, and vice versa, according to a study of rats ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

Researchers uncover how the fruitless gene steers brain development and social feeding behavior in male honeybees.

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

If something similar occurs in humans, and given growing evidence that the gut microbiome matters for health, genetic ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Knowing that your high school friends' genes may affect your risk of substance abuse and psychiatric conditions later in life could make it possible for intervention before these ...

A study of over four thousand rats shows gut microbiomes are shaped by both individual genes and the genes of social partners through shared microbes.