The achievement builds upon decades of research into a phenomenon known as genomic imprinting ... approaches developed in ...

X inactivation turns off entire chromosomes, whereas imprinting turns off only specific genes. How do these processes work, and why do they often produce similar results? Upon examining their ...

Imprinting is partly innate because the young birds will only learn to recognise and follow objects that have certain features. For example, goslings imprint on the first object they see that ...