{"id":31737,"date":"2016-11-06T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T22:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/memories-can-be-inherited-and-scientists-may-have-just-figured-out-how"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:04:52","slug":"memories-can-be-inherited-and-scientists-may-have-just-figured-out-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/memories-can-be-inherited-and-scientists-may-have-just-figured-out-how","title":{"rendered":"Memories Can Be Inherited, and Scientists May Have Just Figured out How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/memories-can-be-inherited-and-scientists-may-have-just-figured-out-how.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief:<\/p>\n<p>Our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children\u2019s children \u2014 and now scientists report that they have discovered that this inheritance can be turned on or off.<\/p>\n<p>Epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in gene expression\u2026changes that are inherited, but they are <em>not<\/em> inherent to our DNA. For instance, life experiences, which aren\u2019t directly coded in human DNA, can actually be passed on to children. Studies have shown that survivors of traumatic events may have effects in subsequent generations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/memories-can-inherited-scientists-may-just-figured\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/memories-can-inherited-scientists-may-just-figured\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief: Our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children\u2019s children \u2014 and now scientists report that they have discovered that this inheritance can be turned on or off. Epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in gene expression\u2026changes that are inherited, but they are not inherent to our DNA. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31737","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\/31737","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65829,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737\/revisions\/65829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}