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Getting too little sleep for several nights in a row disrupts hundreds of genes that are essential for good health, including those linked to stress and fighting disease. 连续几个晚上睡眠过少会扰乱数以百计对身体健康必不可少的...
Swedish researchers said Tuesday what women have suspected all along: that marital woes can often be attributed to men's genetic make-up, according to a study linking a common male gene to relationship problems. The gene variant, which is present in...
Its one of the greatest medical mysteries. Why does a person who never smoked a single cigarette end up with lung cancer? While another person who smokes for decades remains cancer-free. The answer may be buried deep inside our genetic make-up. Thre...
The work of these scientists is at last throwing a spotlight onto the mysterious hidden world of epigenetics. They appear to show that the lives of our ancestors have a capacity to affect us directly....
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...
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...
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...
But could this effect be transmitted to their offspring? They found nearly 200 women of whom a number had actually been in the Twin Towers. About half of them developed post-traumatic stress disorder....
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...
