News tagged with inheritance
Rigged to explode? Inherited mutation links exploding chromosomes to cancer
An inherited mutation in a gene known as the guardian of the genome is likely the link between exploding chromosomes and some particularly aggressive types of cancer, scientists at the European Molecular Biology ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Medical genetics team pinpoints causes of inherited diseases
(Medical Xpress) -- A child’s diagnosis with a congenital deformity or developmental delay raises challenging questions: Could the problem be inherited? What’s the prognosis? If other children are born to the same ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Human skull study causes evolutionary headache
Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually precipitated each other.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Michigan State scholar leads effort to reform genetics instruction
Most middle-schoolers struggle to grasp the introductory concepts of genetics, a field of study considered crucial to advancing solutions to health problems and disease such as cancer, according to a study led by a Michigan ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 05, 2011 |
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Drug shown to improve sight for patients with inherited blindness
A clinical trial led by Newcastle University shows that the drug, idebenone (Catena), improved the vision and perception of colour in patients with Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON). The inherited condition means ...
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Gene mutations in fruit flies help shed light on inherited intellectual disability in humans
Clumsy fruit flies with poor posture are helping an international team of scientists understand inherited intellectual disability in humans – and vice versa.
Jul 04, 2011 |
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Genetic testing for inherited cardiac conditions is 'patchy' in Europe
While genetic inheritance is known to play a role in the multifactorial development of most diseases of the heart, there are also a number of clearly diagnosed cardiac conditions which owe their development to quite specific ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Mechanism for stress-induced epigenetic inheritance uncovered in new study
Researchers at RIKEN have uncovered a mechanism by which the effects of stress in the fly species Drosophila are inherited epigenetically over many generations through changes to the structure of chromatin, ...
Jun 23, 2011 |
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CHOP-led study detects dozens of genes for adult height
As much as 90 percent of variation in adult height may be caused by genetic inheritance, but a multitude of genes are involved. Most of these have yet to be discovered.
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Obese father rats have unhealthy daughters
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study in rats has found the female pups of obese males may be more likely to develop symptoms of diabetes later in life. The condition is not a case of genetic inheritance, but appears ...
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Freshman weight gain: Women with heavy roommates gain less
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Michigan study finds that college women with roommates who weigh more than average gain less weight during their freshman year than women with slimmer roommates: half a pound versus 2.5 ...
Sep 21, 2010 |
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At the crossroads of chromosomes: Study reveals structure of cell division's key molecule
(PhysOrg.com) -- On average, one hundred billion cells in the human body divide over the course of a day. Most of the time the body gets it right but sometimes, problems in cell replication ...
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Researchers identify gene mutation that causes rare form of deafness
Researchers have identified a gene mutation that causes a rare form of hearing loss known as auditory neuropathy, according to U-M Medical School scientists.
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Inheriting and bequeathing in Europe
The holiday home on the Costa del Sol, the bank account in London, the local assets of foreign citizens resident in Germany - which rules apply to the bequeathing of such assets? Not an easy question, because ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Structure of inner-ear protein is key to both hearing and inherited deafness (w/ Video)
Rising from the top surface of each of the specialized receptor cells in our inner ears is a bundle of sensory cilia that responds to the movement of sound. As sensitive as they are fragile, these cilia can move to wisps ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 17, 2010 |
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Inheritance
Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies. The rules of inheritance differ between societies and have changed over time.
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