Private school fees average out at around £350,000 per child. Here, four experts in psychology, economics and teaching tell The i Paper give their perspectives on the impact private education has on c ...

Neurotic behavior is unattractive in mating partners and is unpleasant in general. Yet this trait shows up regularly across ...

The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the United States, long believed to be driven by access to legal and ...

Researchers have successfully engineered bi-paternal mice, born from two male parents, that survived to adulthood using embryonic stem cell techniques.

Women are born with two X chromosomes and inherit one from each parent. But in every cell of their body, just one X chromosome is needed – so the other is randomly inactivated. Some cells use only a ...

Psychotherapy, by and large, is based on the biopsychosocial model. Despite these rich underpinnings, it is still at times ...

Established in October 2024 and the largest of its kind in South-east Asia, the Ocular Genetics Service (OGS) provides a centralised and specialised approach to diagnosing and managing inherited ...

These symbiotic relationships provide clues as to how genetic material was exchanged between bacteria and beetles. Key findings highlight the role of horizontal gene transfer, the incorporation of ...

Polygenic scores (PGS) are metrics used to estimate the genetic predisposition of people to developing specific mental health conditions, personality traits or diseases. In recent years ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...

16 December 2024 Remote therapy proves effective for university students during COVID-19 An evaluation of the University counselling service (UCS) by academics in the School of Psychology has found ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington’s disease is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene in which a three-letter DNA sequence, C-A-G, is repeated at least 40 ...