Laura Gaydos couldn't believe her own eyes. Excited but unsure, she pulled other people into the lab on the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz, to see if they could see what she thought she had just seen.
They could.
What they saw was the first visual confirmation of one of the most fundamental tenets of a new field that is revolutionizing the world of biology. The powerful microscope revealed clear evidence that scars from environmental stresses can be passed on from one generation to the next and probably to many generations that follow.
[For more of this story, written by Lee Dye, go to http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...en/story?id=25812009]
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