Mechanism for stress-induced epigenetic inheritance uncovered in new study
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27-Jun-2011 -
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, the material that makes up the cell nucleus. Published in the journal Cell, the results ...
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