Study Shows How Effects of Starvation Can Be Passed to Future Generations

Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 06:30 in Biology & Nature

A new study, involving roundworms, shows that starvation induces specific changes in so-called small RNAs and that these changes are inherited through at least three consecutive generations, apparently without any DNA involvement.

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