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

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An assistant at the morphing matter lab drops a few pieces of flat dry pasta into a pot of boiling water. In a few minutes, these rigid flat strips will turn into soft spiral shapes called fusilli that can hold a lot of tasty sauce. Packaging dry pas

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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 - 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 - 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 - 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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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

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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

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Chances are you have seen an ad for a test to find out about your ancestry. Maybe you got a kit for Christmas, and now you're waiting for your results. So what do you need to know when you open these results? Health editor Gisele

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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