Our study in mice shows epigenetic changes in the mother can be passed to her offspring to influence a critical time in how the spine develops.
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Most women will have been made aware they have a ticking biological clock. But most probably don’t know it’s because women are born with a limited supply of eggs, and eventually they will run out.
On the face of it, a sperm’s work seems pretty straightforward: locate an egg and fertilise it. Job done. But in the world of a sessile broadcast-spawning marine invertebrate – immobile organisms in which…
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Associate Professor, Centre for Evolutionary Biology, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor,, The University of Melbourne
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Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University
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Distinguished Scientist, Hudson Institute
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PhD Student, Epigenetics and Development Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Head, Molecular Medicine Laboratory, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)