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EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE
One toxic exposure in pregnancy linked to disease risk across 20 generations, shocking rat study findsA new study from Washington State University reports that a single pregnancy exposure to a toxic fungicide can raise disease risk for 20 ge...- Why do some people live more than 100 years despite drinking and smoking all their life? A new study has a shocking answerHow much do your genes determine how long you'll live? A new study published in Science reveals that genes have a higher contribution to hu...
- COVID-19 may alter offspring's brain development, cause anxious behaviour, study in mice findsA new study suggests COVID-19 may impact future generations. Male mice infected with the virus produced offspring exhibiting increased anxi...
- You are what your mothers & grandmothers ateEvidence that poor maternal nutrition can have inheritable consequences had come long ago. Children born to mothers during famines had high...
- Mapping genome offers better clues about health risksIn technical jargon, the interplay between nature (inherited genes) and nurture (lifestyle) is included in the subject of epigenetics.
- DNA can't explain all inherited traitsScientists studied proteins found in cells, known as histones, which are not part of the genetic code, but act as spools around which DNA i...
- Gene activities can be modulated to counter high blood pressure or diabetes Deepak ChopraExpert says most genes are the effect of our lifestyle and not what we have inherited, questions whether at all genes are responsible or su...
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