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

每日商务英语 第2期:画饼充饥

pie?in?the?sky画饼充饥 英文释义 A?bright?and?attractive?but?improbable?orunrealistic?reward. (NOTE:?hyphenated?when?usedas?a?modifier?before?a?noun) 例句 EXAMPLE:?The?new?company?president?told?the?unhappy?employees?that?everything?would?be

The Many Reasons for the Word 'The'

The 1995 film Dead Man has a strange opening scene. Actor Johnny Depp is sitting on a train. A man sits down across from Depps character, and speaks to him: Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later

TED演讲:修饰语滥用对写作的危害(2)

Having robbed the bank in record time, it was possible to make off with the town's chocolate rabbit as well. 在飞速洗劫了银行之后，还能偷走镇上的巧克力兔子。 The modifying phrase in this sentence seems unrelated to anything el

英语语法：73 Modifying Phrases

Grammar Girl here. Today, guest-writer Bonnie Trenga helps us understand modifiers that come at the beginning of a sentence. Bonnie says, As a guest-writer, I plan to talk about two kinds of troublesome modifiers that begin a sentence. Like many of y

英语语法：89 Stacked Modifiers

Todays episode concerns a what-you-may-have-been-wondering-about topic. That sure was a mouthful, and it illustrates the problem of stacked modifiers, which occurs when you string together too many words to describe a noun at the end of the mouthful.

英语语法：88 Splitting Verbs

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how a verb and an adverb messed up the inauguration. I took a break from work Tuesday to watch Barack Obama's inauguration, and like millions of other people, I saw a bit of confusion between Chief Justice John Rob

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

英语语法：50 Funny Misplaced Modifiers

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to help us take a break from serious grammar and instead delve into the world of comedysome intentional, some not. Groucho Marx said it best: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. H

英语杂谈：101 Temperature-sensitive genes

Some bacteria have adapted to super cold environments for millions of years. And scientists have isolated some of the essential genes that allow bacteria to tolerate their harsh living conditionsbecause these same genes might help in the creation of

美国国家公共电台 NPR Personalized Diets: Can Your Genes Really Tell You What To Eat?

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. So genetic tests can help you explore your heritage, but can your DNA also tell you what diet is best for you? NPR's Allison Aubrey asked that question. ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: If you're curious about personalized nutri

Genes more than lifestyle determine longevity

BEIJING, Aug. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- A study conducted by Israeli researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York shows that genes, rather than good eating and lifestyle habits, determine longevity, according to media reports Friday. Thi