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 - 8 基因外遗传现象

No body had had seen this kind of thing before, so this was the first time and all the people looking at the gel and saying

The Ghost In Your Genes - 7 基因外遗传现象

After we had seen how relatively easy it was to change the switches in mouse embryos, we thought that perhaps the same could be true of human embryos. In IVF, you also have the embryo for a brief peri

The Ghost In Your Genes - 6 基因外遗传现象

If inheritance was not just about DNA, if these gene switches were so important, just what could turn them on or off? Stephanie and Emend Mullins have two children, Karen and Charlotte. When we were t

The Ghost In Your Genes - 5 基因外遗传现象

It showed that there was clearly more to inheritance than simply the coded sequence of DNA. We then realized that we were dealing with what is now known as genomic imprinting. What genomic imprinting

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

The Ghost In Your Genes - 1 基因外遗传现象

We are on the brink of uncovering a hidden world, a world that connects past and future generations in ways we never imagined possible. What this means is an environmental exposure that your grandmoth

The Ghost In Your Genes - 10 基因外遗传现象

Our studies had really convinced me that it were the later experiences of the child as the child was growing up bombarded with years and years of, em, symptoms from the parents that accounted for the

The Ghost In Your Genes - 14 基因外遗传现象

The impact of a famine being captured by the genes in the eggs and sperm, and a memory of this event was being carried forward to affect the grandchildren, generations later. We are changing the view

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Genes more than lifestyle determine longevity

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英语PK台 第452期:宝宝内心的小恐惧

Dialogue 1 Mark: Hey, Jingjing. You wanna come bungee jumping with me and my friends? We're heading out this afternoon. It's gonna be so much fun! 马克：嘿，京晶。你想加入我和我的朋友们去蹦极吗？我们今天下午出发，肯定