News tagged with inheritance

DNA replication protein Cdt1 also has a role in mitosis, cancer

The foundation of biological inheritance is DNA replication – a tightly coordinated process in which DNA is simultaneously copied at hundreds of thousands of different sites across the genome. If that ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Origin of Artificial Species: Creating Artificial Personalities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does your robot seem to be acting a bit neurotic? Maybe it's just their personality. Recently, a team of researchers has designed computer-coded genomes for artificial creatures in which a ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 6 feature

Obese father rats have unhealthy daughters

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study in rats has found the female pups of obese males may be more likely to develop symptoms of diabetes later in life. The condition is not a case of genetic inheritance, but appears ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

New key mechanism in cell division discovered

Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have identified the mechanism by which protein Zds1 regulates a key function in mitosis, the process that occurs immediately before cell division. The ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For cancer cells, genetics alone is poor indicator for drug response (w/Video)

In certain respects, cells are less like machines and more like people. True, they have lots of components, but they also have lots of personality. For example, when specific groups of people are studied in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Human skull study causes evolutionary headache

Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually precipitated each other.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Freshman weight gain: Women with heavy roommates gain less

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Michigan study finds that college women with roommates who weigh more than average gain less weight during their freshman year than women with slimmer roommates: half a pound versus 2.5 ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

At the crossroads of chromosomes: Study reveals structure of cell division's key molecule

(PhysOrg.com) -- On average, one hundred billion cells in the human body divide over the course of a day. Most of the time the body gets it right but sometimes, problems in cell replication ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Structure of inner-ear protein is key to both hearing and inherited deafness (w/ Video)

Rising from the top surface of each of the specialized receptor cells in our inner ears is a bundle of sensory cilia that responds to the movement of sound. As sensitive as they are fragile, these cilia can move to wisps ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find new insights into inherited retinal disease

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered new links between a common form of inherited blindness affecting children and a gene known ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 17, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Technology' plays large role in wealth inheritance

A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies. A team of 26 anthropologists, statisticians, and economists based at the Santa Fe Institute in New ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

100 reasons to change the way we think about genetics

For years, genes have been considered the one and only way biological traits could be passed down through generations of organisms. Not anymore.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 14

Researchers identify gene mutation that causes rare form of deafness

Researchers have identified a gene mutation that causes a rare form of hearing loss known as auditory neuropathy, according to U-M Medical School scientists.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Most Americans save only about half of their inheritances, study finds

A new national study suggests that adults who receive an inheritance save only about half of what they receive, while spending, donating or losing the rest.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?

Mendel solved the logic of inheritance in his monastery garden with no more technology than Darwin had in his garden at Down House. So why couldn't Darwin have done it too? A Journal of Biology article argues that Darwin ...

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies. The rules of inheritance differ between societies and have changed over time.

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