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The premise of Assassin's Creed is the reliving of other people's memories stored inside DNA. Well scientists have found that in mice, it actually happens! Anthony is joined by special guest and our friend Tara Long from Hard Science to explain how this process works, and if it might apply to humans as well.

Read More:
Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn.3594.html
"Using olfactory molecular specificity, we examined the inheritance of parental traumatic exposure, a phenomenon that has been frequently observed, but not understood."

What Is Epigenetics?
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6004/611
"The cells in a multicellular organism have nominally identical DNA sequences (and therefore the same genetic instruction sets), yet maintain different terminal phenotypes. This nongenetic cellular memory, which records developmental and environmental cues (and alternative cell states in unicellular organisms), is the basis of epi-(above)-genetics."

Epigenetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

Watch More:
How to Change Your Genes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5DU9lgbsSE
TestTube Wild Card
http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-231-how-too-many-screens-affect-our-brain?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=DNews&utm_campaign=DNWC
Is Sexiness Hereditary?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6STRCncvM8
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