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What You Eat Could Alter Your Unborn Children And Grandchildren’s Genes

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What you eat could impact your unborn children, grandchildren, scientific research shows Within the last century, researchers’ understanding of genetics has undergone a profound transformation. Genes, regions of DNA that are largely responsible for our physical characteristics, were considered unchanging under the original model of genetics pioneered by biologist Gregor Mendel in 1865. That is,…

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The ‘weird’ male Y chromosome has finally been fully sequenced. Can we now understand how it works, and how it evolved?

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The Y chromosome is a never-ending source of fascination (particularly to men) because it bears genes that determine maleness and make sperm. It’s also small and seriously weird; it carries few genes and is full of junk DNA that makes it horrendous to sequence. However, new “long-read” sequencing techniques have finally provided a reliable sequence…

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