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The title makes it sound like a dull statistical correlation was found in some sociology report, but they did some actual measuring. From the report summary: >
by l5870uoo9y 8y ago
The title makes it sound like a dull statistical correlation was found in some sociology report, but they did some actual measuring. From the report summary:
> We show that this effect is mediated through sperm RNA and especially miRs 212/132. In conclusion, our study reports intergenerational inheritance of an acquired cognitive benefit and points to specific miRs as candidates mechanistically involved in this type of transmission.
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)30404-2?sf186956567=1 https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)304...
- nostrademons 8y agoIn mice, though. It's an open question to what extent rodent results apply to humans. This result should open doors to future research, but by itself should be taken with the appropriate grain of salt.
- godelmachine 8y agoIt's a well known fact that mice and humans promdominantly share the same genome, so this research should be taken with more than grain of salt, methinks.
- jonlucc 8y ago> mice and humans promdominantly share the same genome And yet you're 70kg and a mouse is 20g. Plenty of diseases have been treated/cured in mice in ways that don't translate to the clinic, so I think the caution is warranted.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoIsn't that also true of me and corn?
- joombaga 8y ago~85% with mice, ~60% with bananas. I suspect corn is more like a banana than a mouse.