heredity

Gene therapy. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Can we control genetic inheritance? New RNA research suggests it may be possible

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Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered new pathways for double-stranded dsRNA to enter cells, revealing how RNA influences gene regulation over many generations – insights that could improve RNA-based drugs
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal family in the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The encounter between Neanderthals and modern man as told by their genomes

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A family tree of worms, based on a neuron (nerve cell), and RNA molecules that transmit information between generations. Credit: Beata Edyta Mierzwa

A mechanism has been deciphered that allows the inheritance of brain activity from generation to generation - not through DNA

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The gene that causes the severe degenerative disease of the nervous system may have been essential in our evolution. Illustration: pixabay.com.

Huntington's paradox: how an essential gene causes a fatal disease

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Human evolution, according to an abyss. Illustration: shutterstock

Does human evolution continue?

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Neanderthal man. Illustration: shutterstock

Modern man has lost genes that were on the Y chromosome of the Neanderthals

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Epigenetics - illustration: shutterstock

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have revealed laws that dictate epigenetic inheritance other than through DNA

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Illustration of DNA being transported through a nanometer pore. Courtesy of Prof. Amit Meler, Technion

Beyond the sequence

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An adult fruit fly exposed to an environmental challenge (poison) during its development (left), compared to a fly that developed in a favorable environment (right)

challenges in the environment

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Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney - the candidates for the US presidency in the 2012 elections

Forum - the election garden

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baby playing From WIKIMEDIA COMMONS CC license

Money = mental ability?

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Gregor Mendel. From Wikipedia

It turns out that the fear of the influence of the theory of evolution on Gregor Mendel caused the abbot who followed him to burn his papers

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Mitochondrion

The mother's curse

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Trisomy 21 (chromosome number 21 appears 3 times) which characterizes Down syndrome

chipping (of genes)

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After the division of the simple model cell, one of the daughter cells inherits only one type of lipid (red) and most of the protein fragments (blue), while the other daughter cell inherits two types of lipids (red and green). Image: See link to the source of the image at the end of the article

New insights into the mechanism of cell division

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Prof. Naim Shahada (left) and Dr. Gal Neuman at the Rambam clinic. Photo: Piotr Plitar.

Sons ate unripe, the teeth of fathers will be priests

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A normal brain (left) and an Alzheimer's disease brain (right)

Medicine - Alzheimer's: to delay the decline of the screen

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Prof. Ohad Birak

A new gene for a genetic disease has been identified among Jews from North Africa and Iraq

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Rice University statisticians have dated the mitochondrial farm using new methods. Image: Rice University

The common mother of all humans lived 200 thousand years ago

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Gregor Mendel

Not exactly Chuck Norris: on Gregor Mendel and the laws of genetics

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The genome project - success or failure?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The case is closed - the European royal families suffered from hemophilia B

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The mice that almost learned to talk

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

family pride

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