Health
How sperm remember – EurekAlert
A new study from McGill, published recently in Developmental Cell, has made a significant advance in the field of epigenetics by identifying how environmental information…
It has long been understood that a parent’s DNA is the principal determinant of health and disease in offspring. Yet inheritance via DNA is only part of the story; a father’s lifestyle such as diet, being overweight and stress levels have been linked to health consequences for his offspring. This occurs through the epigenome – heritable biochemical marks associated with the DNA and proteins that bind it. But how the information is transmitted at fertilization along with the exact mechanisms and…
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