{"id":91886,"date":"2019-06-10T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/epigenetic-memories-that-could-pass-on-a-fathers-life-experiences-seen-in-worm-sperm"},"modified":"2019-06-10T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:24:08","slug":"epigenetic-memories-that-could-pass-on-a-fathers-life-experiences-seen-in-worm-sperm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/epigenetic-memories-that-could-pass-on-a-fathers-life-experiences-seen-in-worm-sperm","title":{"rendered":"Epigenetic \u2018Memories\u2019 That Could Pass On A Father\u2019s Life Experiences Seen In Worm Sperm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epigenetic-memories-that-could-pass-on-a-fathers-life-experiences-seen-in-worm-sperm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We may like to think that what we do in our daily lives only affects ourselves and perhaps a few people around us, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/grrlscientist\/2018\/04\/30\/might-epigenetics-hold-the-secret-to-super-fast-adaptation\/\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/grrlscientist\/2018\/04\/30\/might-epigenetics-hold-the-secret-to-super-fast-adaptation\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increasingly active field of scientific inquiry called epigenetics<\/a> suggests that life experiences like what we eat and the environments we expose ourselves to can influence the health and development of our kids and the generations beyond them.<\/p>\n<p>Studies of both humans and animals have suggested that a father\u2019s experiences can be <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/356\/6335\/320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/356\/6335\/320\">transmitted across generations<\/a>, but the mechanism for this epigentic inheritance hasn\u2019t quite been clear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-06236-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-06236-8\">New research published Wednesday in <em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-06236-8\">Nature Communications <\/em><\/a> details how Susan Strome\u2019s lab at UC Santa Cruz observed the transmission of epigenetic markers in the sperm of the small roundworm <em>Caenorhabditis elegans. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ericmack\/2018\/10\/17\/epigenetic-memories-that-pass-on-a-fathers-experiences-offspring-in-worm-sperm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may like to think that what we do in our daily lives only affects ourselves and perhaps a few people around us, but the increasingly active field of scientific inquiry called epigenetics suggests that life experiences like what we eat and the environments we expose ourselves to can influence the health and development of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91886","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}