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Mutant mice challenge rules of genetic inheritance

DNA's cousin, RNA, may also pass information down the generations.

In a discovery that rips up the rulebook of genetics, researchers in France have shown that RNA, rather than its more famous cousin DNA, might be able to ferry information from one generation of mice to the next.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on May 24, 2006 05:09 PM |

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