Researchers have identified a “bonding” gene involved in the relationship behavior of men and their partners.
Researchers, led by Hasse Walum of the Karolinkska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, looked at pairs of Swedish twins.
Five hundred fifty-two twins and their partners of at least five years were studied. Most (82%) were married. Eighteen percent were living together [...]

Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus — one of nature’s strangest animals with a bill like a duck’s, a mammal’s fur and snake-like venom.
The researchers, whose analysis of the platypus genome was published Thursday in the journal Nature, said it could help explain how mammals, including humans, evolved from reptiles [...]

However, new research by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Exeter suggests that menopause is an adaptation to minimize reproductive competition between generations of females in the same family unit.
Even in ‘natural fertility’ human societies (i.e., those without access to modern medicine or technology) women typically survive for many years after they have ceased [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The next chief executive of Eli Lilly
and Co (LLY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday his scientific training and
experience as a chemist would help the drugmaker develop new
medicines and maintain its research prowess.
John Lechleiter, scheduled to take over on April 1 from
longtime CEO Sidney Taurel, has also headed regulatory affairs,
laboratories [...]