Imprinting refers to the chemical modification of the DNA in some genes that affects how or whether those genes are expressed. One particular kind of DNA imprinting found in mammals is known as parental genomic imprinting, in which the sex of the...

Imprinting describes a process in which newborn animals rapidly develop a strong attachment to a particular individual, often the mother. It is associated particularly with precocious bird species (species that mature early) such as chickens, ducks,...

Learned attachment. Imprinting is particularly widespread in birds. Filial imprinting determines the preferred target for the following response of young birds. Sexual imprinting determines mate preference in birds. Filial imprinting can be reliably...

Imprinting is a term used in ethology (study of animal behavior) to describe the development of a stable behavioral pattern during a brief period of juvenile life (known as the "sensitive phase") in a social species. It occurs as a result of a timely...

Imprinting may mean: Genomic imprinting, a mechanism of regulating gene expression Imprinting (psychology), in psychology and ethology Molecular imprinting, in polymer chemistry Metabolic imprinting, the phenomenon by which the metabolism of the...

289p - Support services - The benign economic environment in the UK has provided workers with job-hunting opportunities and, when staff do move on, their ex-employers have had the confidence to seek replacements. So, business is booming for recruitment firms. Yet, against this...

Today is the 70th birthday of a unique figure in the public life of this nation for the past four decades, the senior senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Tomorrow , a daylong symposium and a celebratory dinner at the Woodrow Wilson Center...

A rock that sat untouched in a Pennsylvania museum's fossil collection for years has rare full-body imprints of not just one, but three, ancient amphibians.Researchers found the imprints in sandstone rocks collected in eastern Pennsylvania decades ago and stored in the museum in Reading, Pa....

The rapper had everyone talking last week when he signed with Def Jam and now the streets are buzzing again with the news that Nas will release his first album under his Def Jam contract, on his own imprint called the Jones Experience. "I've...