Science news articles about 'three generations'

  • Pandas Extinct Within Three Generations?

    A WWF spokesperson says that, unless development around giant panda habitat in China is controlled, the panda could become extinct within two or three generations. Video.
  • Three generations of rovers with crouching engineers

    ... join a grouping of vehicles providing a comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The setting ...
  • Global warming affects world's largest freshwater lake

    ... data set, collected in Lake Baikal by three generations of a single family of Siberian scientists," Moore said. "In the 1940s, Mikhail Kozhov began collecting ...
  • Smokers flock together, quit together

    ... of cardiovascular health and risk factors among three generations of participants who are connected as family, friends and co-workers. Christakis and Fowler analyzed data ...
  • RNA induction of an epigenetic hereditary pathology

    ... an unexpected role in passing characteristics on to future generations, even in the absence of DNA mutations affecting ... were then inherited both paternally and maternally for three generations. The authors attribute this phenomenon to the transmission ...
  • Study shows single insecticide application can kill 3 cockroach generations

    ... dose of an insecticide can kill three generations of cockroaches as they feed off of each other and transfer the poison ... only studied indoxacarb, Buczkowski said it's possible other insecticides also may have three-generation horizontal transfer kill capabilities ...
  • Our genome changes over lifetime, Johns Hopkins experts say

    ... -year span from 126 individuals from two- and three-generation families. Similar to the Icelandic population, the Utah family members also showed varied methylation ...
  • Cockroach insecticides may have long life

    WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found one dose of an insecticide can kill three generations of cockroaches as they feed off each other, transferring the poison.
  • The epigenetics of increasing weight through the generations

    ... – a phenomenon called epigenetics -- could affect successive generations of mice. "There is an obesity epidemic in the United States ... colleagues studied the effect of maternal obesity in three generations of genetically identical mice, all with the same ...
  • Family history of brain tumors linked to increased risk of brain cancer

    ... medical history information was available for at least three generations for each participant. The group had at least one of two types of tumors: glioblastomas or astrocytomas. Glioblastomas ...
  • New genes linked to gout

    ... data on more than 9,300 participants spanning three generations. The Framingham Heart Study is funded by NHLBI in collaboration with Boston University School of Medicine ...
  • Research shows why parents are born and not made

    ... of burying beetles collected in Cornwall and bred over three generations. After breeding, the beetles were separated so the team could compare the roles taken by a single mother ...
  • The relative risk of brain cancer

    ... , which tracked back at least three generations and as far as ten generations in some families. The brain tumors ... who had available genealogic material spanning at least three generations. Data dates back to the early ...
  • Having a parent with dementia may affect memory in midlife

    ... , researchers used the Framingham Heart Study to follow three generations of participants to study risk factors ... responsible for the transmission of Alzheimer's disease risk between generations. However, all of these individuals were functioning normally, and only further ...
  • Largemouth bass vulnerability to being caught by anglers a heritable trait

    ... ," said Philipp. This selection process was repeated for several generations over the course of the 20 year experiment. "As we had predicted ... selected to become less vulnerable. We selected over three generations, but in the wild the selection is occurring in every ...

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