Twin studies place the heritability of schizophrenia near eighty percent, but concordance between monozygotic twins falls well short of fifty percent. What occupies the remaining distance is unresolved. Consuelo Walss-Bass, who directs the Psychiatric Genetics Program and the brain collection at UTHealth Houston, approaches the problem through transcriptomic and epigenetic profiling of donated brain tissue and through induced pluripotent stem cell models derived from families with multiple affected siblings. She also grew up with the question: her mother had schizophrenia, and of five children raised afterward in Torreón, Mexico, one received the same diagnosis. Why My Sister? sets the two accounts alongside each other.

A research group in Japan led by Professor YAMAMOTO Takashi, Deputy Director, Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology / Graduate School of Engineering Science, the University of Osaka, in collaboration with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., has successfully demonstrated a world-record 10-channel multiplexed quantum photonic interface based on an integrated waveguide array, a key technology for optically interconnecting multiple quantum computers.

Conformational changes in proteins are vital to their function yet remain challenging for state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, such as AlphaFold3, to predict. Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI introduced a repulsive force between predicted structures, allowing AlphaFold3 to sample the multiple conformational states that its default settings rarely capture.

Plastic is accidentally on the menu for southern giant petrel chicks. Even small nibbles of it may affect these seabirds' growth, according to a study from the UC Davis and Argentina's CONICET.

New research by SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Margarita Orlova is providing new insight into how bumble bee queens communicate through chemical signals and how those signals change throughout their lives.

Monkeypox virus used to be transmitted predominantly from animals to humans. In recent years, however, new virus variants have become increasingly capable of spreading from person to person. Researchers at Goethe University and Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt have now found that seminal fluid facilitates the uptake of monkeypox virus into cells.

A new study of aging in our organs found that each organ ages on its own schedule. Arteries remodel fastest from age 30-39 while reproductive organs do so at menopause.

Most of our body ages in two waves, and those who experience aging more rapidly in one organ also have accelerated aging in partner organs. The researchers built a map from analyzing 25,000 organ images that points to hormonal signaling as a possible conductor of this symphony of aging throughout the body.