The Ghost In Your Genes - 2 基因外遗传现象

Marcus Pembrey is one of a select band of scientists, a band of scientists who are daring to challenge an orthodoxy . They believe the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even our great grandparen

The Ghost In Your Genes - 4 基因外遗传现象

...lead to the end of diseases like cancer... Alzheimer's , Parkinson's , diabetes. The list is endless. We were thinking of genes in a very mechanical way. We were thinking of them just in terms of t

The Ghost In Your Genes - 3 基因外遗传现象

Named after Henry Angelman, the pediatrician who first described Angelman syndrome. He referred to them as happy puppet children because it described, to some extent, the features. They have a rather

1918年的流感病毒基因源代码可能帮助人类抗击禽流感

1918 Flu's Genetic Code May Help Fight Bird Flu 1918年的流感病毒基因源代码可能帮助人类抗击禽流感 It was the 20th century's greatest plague . Estimates of the 1918-1919 flu death

专业术语—基因专业词汇T/V/W/Y

万花筒 2008-04-09&-4-10 爱抽烟，是基因的错

Its one of the greatest medical mysteries. Why does a person who never smoked a single cigarette end up with lung cancer? While another person who smokes for decades remains cancer-free. The answer may be buried deep inside our genetic make-up. Thre

专业术语—基因专业词汇M/N

M 畸形 malformation 描图 mapping 标记 marker 黑色素瘤 melanoma 孟德尔 Mendel, Johann (Gregor) 孟德尔遗传 Mendelian inheritance 信使RNA messenger RNA (mRNA) [分裂]中期 metaphase

专业术语—基因专业词汇I/K/L

The Ghost In Your Genes - 12 基因外遗传现象

Olov Bygren was looking to see if poor nutrition had an effect on health when he stumbled on something curious. It appeared that a famine could affect people almost 100 years later even if they never

The Ghost In Your Genes - 9 基因外遗传现象

The email was sent by Olov Bygren. He was studying the population records of an obscure town in northern Sweden, Overkalix. What made these records unique was their detail. They recorded births and de

The Ghost In Your Genes - 11 基因外遗传现象

But could this effect be transmitted to their offspring? They found nearly 200 women of whom a number had actually been in the Twin Towers. About half of them developed post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Ghost In Your Genes - 13 基因外遗传现象

They discovered that when a famine was able to trigger an effect was different for the grandmother than the grandfather. The grandmother appeared susceptible while she herself was still in the womb, w

The Ghost In Your Genes - 15 基因外遗传现象

The work of these scientists is at last throwing a spotlight onto the mysterious hidden world of epigenetics. They appear to show that the lives of our ancestors have a capacity to affect us directly.

专业术语—基因专业词汇C/D

奥尼士主任:基因并非不可改变

奥尼士主任与我们分享了他的新研究成果。这项研究显示，健康的生活习惯能够影响到人的基因。比如说，当一个人生活得更健康、吃得更好、勤锻炼身体、付出更多的爱的时候，他的脑细胞

人类自闭症基因已被发现发

Autism-Related Genes Discovered 人类自闭症基因已被发现发 The human body has about 25,000 genes. Researchers already know of 65 genes they believe carry a risk for autism. Now, researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey have identif

VOA慢速英语 新型基因治疗癌症法“精确”消灭目标

New Gene Therapy 'Precisely' Targets Cancer 新型基因治疗癌症法精确消灭目标 Cancer is one of the worlds most feared diseases, and with good reason: Its the leading cause of death across the globe. Every year, about 14 million people are

科学家发现智慧基因 打开“开关”可变聪明

For the first time, scientists have identified two clusters of genes directly linked to human intelligence. 科学家们首次发现，大脑中存在两个与人类智力直接相关的基因集群。 Called M1 and M3, these so-called 'gene networks

留美老师带你每日说英文 第1118期:身高与基因的关系

In 2007, scientists compared height and DNA between more than 11,000 pairs of siblings and found that, across humans, 86% of height's variation can be explained by genetics. As traits go, this is very high; for comparison, genetics only explains abou

留美老师带你每日说英文 第352期:决定我们特质的基因

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： We also inherit genes responsible for our other traits from impulsivity to procrastination, to work ethic and straight up laziness. 我们也会传承那些决定我们特质的基因，包含想要