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Your great grandparent's experience might have altered your stress response.

Your great grandparent's experience might have altered your stress response. | Science News | Scoop.it

This fascinating nugget from Crews et a. (open access) adds to accumulating evidence on the importance of experience induced modification of our genomes that can be passed between generations. (The experiments are on mice, because obviously you don't do this kind of study directly on humans.)

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Social stress changes immune system gene expression in primates

Social stress changes immune system gene expression in primates | Science News | Scoop.it
The ranking of a monkey within her social environment and the stress accompanying that status dramatically alters the expression of nearly 1,000 genes, a new scientific study reports.
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