Scientists discover that pseudouridine molecule guides epigenetic inheritance in plants and mammals
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Scientists discover that pseudouridine molecule guides epigenetic inheritance in plants and mammals

Not everything inside us is, strictly speaking, us. The closer we look at the genome, the more we appreciate the role of small RNAs in what we call epigenetic inheritance. That's when traits get passed down without altering our basic DNA sequence.