If epigenetic treatment holds up, was Lamarck still as wrong as generations of Darwinists made him out to be?
Tag: mice
At the Scientist: The epigenetic couch potato mouse debuts
Why the sea is boiling hot: It’s not just that Darwinian evolution is not being demonstrated to any degree but that a lot of NON-Darwinian evolution IS being demonstrated.
Irresistible! An epigenetic couch potato mouse
From the release: “Our findings suggest that epigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA methylation, that are established in the brain during fetal or early postnatal life, play a major role in determining individual propensity for exercise,” Waterland said.
Chromosomes organize to ensure each nose cell expresses only one smell receptor
For the same type of reason, perhaps, as each key only produces one letter (prevents information from being degraded even as it is produced).
Coffee time: How cats court mice
This coffee time is dedicated to: animal mind Urine: Surely not an incentive one would expect, if one must clean litter boxes. But this just in from From BBC News: Cats ‘control mice’ with chemicals in their urine Researchers found that when very young mice were exposed to a chemical in cat urine, they were Read More…