Troubling link between slavery and Congressional wealth uncovered. US legislators whose ancestors owned 16 or more slaves have an average net worth nearly $4 million higher than their colleagues without slaveholding ancestors, even after accounting for factors like age, race, and education.
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Slaveholder ancestry and current net worth of members of the United States Congress
Background Whether and how much past slavery affects contemporary social and economic conditions in the United States is an area of active debate. Newly available data on which members of the United States Congress are descendants of slaveholders provides…
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Bacterial cells can "remember" and pass on temporary environmental changes through regulatory networks, not DNA. This finding challenges traditional views on inheritance and could aid in developing new treatments, such as overcoming antibiotic resistance by modifying bacterial sensitivity.
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Memories are passed down to offspring by bacterial cells
A new Northwestern University and University of Texas-Southwestern study has found that bacterial cells can "remember" brief, temporary...
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