News tagged with inheritance

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists devise efficient way of learning about complex corn traits

There's no "silver bullet" gene or gene region that controls so-called complex traits in maize, commonly known as corn.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Perfect pitch study offers window into influences of nature and nurture

Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there's new evidence that genes may influence one's ability to get there, as well.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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

Can happiness be inherited?

A new article published in Elsevier's journal Bioscience Hypotheses suggests that our feelings in our lifetime can affect our children.

Biology / Other

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | 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.

For more information about Inheritance, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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