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Memory is also passed down through generations
Medicine - Health

Memory is also passed down through generations

Animal studies show that the behavior of an individual can be influenced by events that occurred in previous generations and passed down through a form of genetic memory.

December 14, 2018
Surprise heirs
Medicine - Health

Surprise heirs

Infertility therapies are creating unprepared children, and complicating the inheritance process of lost parents.

December 14, 2018
Stress can be transmitted through the genes?
Medicine - Health

Stress can be transmitted through the genes?

Thanks to the scanning of DNA in eggs and sperm of mice, the researchers found external factors such as smoking, dieting, starvation, mental illness and fluctuating chil…

December 14, 2018
The inheritance of heart disease
Medicine - Health

The inheritance of heart disease

The process of analyzing the data on the disease history of more than 11 million people since 1932 across Sweden, researchers at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm have dis…

December 14, 2018