2006-11-17 18:23:22.877791+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
You are what your grandmother ate:
Feeding mice an enriched diet during pregnancy silenced a gene for light fur in their pups. And even though these pups ate a standard, un-enriched diet, the gene remained less active in their subsequent offspring.
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#Comment Re: made: 2006-11-18 00:13:26.673946+01 by: petronius
Hmmm, doesn't this sound like Lamarkism, the supposed inheritability of acquired traits? Maybe Lysenko was right!
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