{"id":24173,"date":"2016-03-31T19:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T02:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/onoff-button-for-passing-along-epigenetic-memories-to-our-children-discovered"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:33:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:33:14","slug":"onoff-button-for-passing-along-epigenetic-memories-to-our-children-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/onoff-button-for-passing-along-epigenetic-memories-to-our-children-discovered","title":{"rendered":"On\/off button for passing along epigenetic \u2018memories\u2019 to our children discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/onoff-button-for-passing-along-epigenetic-memories-to-our-children-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Transgenerational Small RNA Inheritance\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/onoff-button-for-passing-along-epigenetic-memories-to-our-children-discovered.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"431\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>The duration of epigenetic responses underpinning transgenerational inheritance is determined by an active mechanism relying on the production of small RNAs and modulation of RNAi factors, dictating whether ancestral RNAi responses would be memorized or forgotten (credit: Leah Houri-Ze\u2019evi et al.\/Cell)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>According to epigenetics \u2014 the study of inheritable changes in gene expression not directly coded in our DNA \u2014 our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children\u2019s children. Studies on survivors of traumatic events have suggested that exposure to stress may indeed have lasting effects on subsequent generations.<\/p>\n<p>But exactly <em>how<\/em> are these genetic \u201cmemories\u201d passed on?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/onoff-button-for-passing-along-epigenetic-memories-to-our-children-discovered\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/onoff-button-for-passing-along-epi...discovered<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duration of epigenetic responses underpinning transgenerational inheritance is determined by an active mechanism relying on the production of small RNAs and modulation of RNAi factors, dictating whether ancestral RNAi responses would be memorized or forgotten (credit: Leah Houri-Ze\u2019evi et al.\/Cell) According to epigenetics \u2014 the study of inheritable changes in gene expression not directly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50875,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24173\/revisions\/50875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}