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Researchers have isolated the parts of the human genome that could explain the differences in how humans experience happiness

They found three genetic variants for happiness and two for depression

Study also found eleven that account for varying degrees of neuroticism

Genetic variants are mainly expressed in the central nervous system

For the first time in history, researchers have isolated the parts of the human genome that could explain the differences in how humans experience happiness.

The researchers found three genetic variants for happiness, two that can account for differences in symptoms of depression, and eleven that could account for varying degrees of neuroticism.

The genetic variants for happiness are mainly expressed in the central nervous system, the adrenal glands and the pancreatic system.

These findings are from a large-scale international study in over 298,000 people, conducted by VU Amsterdam professors Meike Bartels and Philipp Koellinger.

Professors Bartels and Koellinger, in collaboration with scientists in 17 countries, studied the phenotypes in the DNA of more than 300,000 people.

Phenotypes are traits that emerge as a result of nature and nurture.

The researchers then asked the participants to discuss how happy they feel about their life, if they've ever had depression or depressive symptoms and signs of neurotic behaviour.

The results additionally looked into physical traits that can have an impact on mood, including smoking and body mass index.

These revealed that subjective wellbeing, depression and neuroticism are influenced by the same set of genes expressed in the central nervous system, adrenal glands and pancreatic system.

Genes in tissues were also found to influence the feeling of wellbeing.

However, the researchers added that the three variants only account for a small fraction of the differences between people.

Prior twin and family research using information from the Netherlands Twin Register and other sources has shown that individual differences in happiness and wellbeing can be partially ascribed to genetic differences between people.

Happiness and wellbeing are the topics of an increasing number of scientific studies in a variety of academic disciplines.

VU Amsterdam professor Meike Bartels explained: 'This study is both a milestone and a new beginning.

'A milestone because we are now certain that there is a genetic aspect to happiness and a new beginning because the three variants that we know are involved account for only a small fraction of the differences between human beings.

'We expect that many variants will play a part.'

'Locating these variants will also allow us to better study the interplay between nature and nurture, as the environment is certainly responsible - to some extent - for differences in the way people experience happiness.'

These findings, which resulted from a collaborative project with the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, will not be studied more in depth to create a clearer picture of what causes differences in happiness.

Professor Bartels added: 'The genetic overlap with depressive symptoms that we have found is also a breakthrough.

'This shows that research into happiness can also offer new insights into the causes of one of the greatest medical challenges of our time: depression.'

The research was successfully completed thanks to the assistance of 181 researchers from 145 scientific institutes, including medical centres in Rotterdam, Groningen, Leiden and Utrecht, and the universities of Rotterdam and Groningen.

The results were published in the journal Nature Genetics.

This research builds on a previous study which found that the more people in a country who have a particular gene, the happier the nation will be.

The DNA in question, the FAAH gene, makes a protein that affects feelings of pleasure and pain. People with a particular version of it tend to be cheerier souls.

However, wealth and health were found to have little effect on happiness.

The team from Bulgaria and Hong Kong looked at whether there was a link between levels of the FAAH gene in a population and number of people who said they were 'very happy' in global study of life satisfaction.

Sweden - one of the happiest countries in Europe and in the world - also had lots of happy DNA.

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Is happiness in your DNA? Study discovers genes that boost our mood

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Researchers have isolated the parts of the human genome that could explain the differences in how humans experience happiness They found three genetic variants for happiness and two for depression Study also found eleven that account for varying degrees of neuroticism Genetic variants are mainly expressed in the central nervous system For the first time in history, researchers have isolated the parts of the human genome that could explain the differences in how humans experience happiness.

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South Korea-based artist Seung-Hwan Oh doesn't just develop his photographs. He subjects them to the strange, sometimes violent whims of microbes. The distorted, psychedelic images that come from this meeting of bacteria and portraiture look like this:

Seung-Hwan Oh's images are shot with medium format color positive film.

"The visual result of the symbiosis between film matter and organic matter is the conceptual origin of this body of work," the artist writes on his site. So how does this "symbiosis" result in the dramatic erosion of color and form seen above? Seung-Hwan Oh immerses developed film in water, adding various unnamed microbes to the liquid that consume the light-sensitive chemicals present on the photos over the course of a few months to a few years. The silver halides "destabilize," as do the bodies, faces and lines once present in the imagery.

Subjects blur into negative space, creating a sort of dystopian nightmare, in which the material world is slowly being consumed by tiny single-celled organisms. In fact, some of the microbe-meets-photo scenes appear so aggressively abstract, one might confuse the "portrait" with the rendering of the end of a galaxy -- or maybe the beginning.

It "creates an aesthetic of entangled creation and destruction that inevitably is ephemeral, and results in complete disintegration of the film so that it can only be delicately digitized before it is consumed," Seung-Hwan Oh writes.

Go the way of the bacteria, and feast upon the series, titled "Impermanence," below.

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Adding Bacteria To Photography Amounts To An Art-Meets-Science Explosion

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South Korea-based artist Seung-Hwan Oh doesn't just develop his photographs. He subjects them to the strange, sometimes violent whims of microbes. The distorted, psychedelic images that come from this meeting of bacteria and portraiture look like this: Seung-Hwan Oh's images are shot with medium format color positive film.

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These images are part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. The colors and shading are artistic additions, but the image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of individual microorganisms. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature. Please visit Dr. Ben-Jacob's website for more information.

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These images are part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. The colors and shading are artistic additions, but the image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of individual microorganisms. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature.

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Frosted Lavenders and black echos , definition of light withing the darkness.
Florescent and glowing colours with a transcending hue. Soft blues and purple with a hint of rose Gold.