The HIV virus can be passed on during breastfeeding, and about one third of the 2 million children currently living HIV were infected this way.
With typical carrier screening, you're looking for a condition that could be passed on with a match of two recessive genes from the mother and father.
But Copeland knew Witt would be passing on one particular play, and that made the difference in the game.
The people would then be passed on to one of three doctors working with Mr. Torres Crespo Wildo Vargasas, a psychiatrist; Rafael Miguez Balseiro, also a psychiatrist; or Erica Rivera Castro, a rehabilitation specialist — who would evaluate and make a diagnosis for the person making the claim.
As societies grow more complex, however, the quantity of knowledge to be passed on from one generation to the next becomes more than any one person can know, and, hence, there must evolve more selective and efficient means of cultural transmission.
Of the many mutations discovered in the samples, FBI scientists decided to home in on four distinct mutations that were the most likely to be passed on from one generation of cells to the next (ScienceNOW, 12 August).
Nor is it known whether these changes might be passed on from one generation to the next.
"The Presidency should not be passed on from one liberal to the next," John Ellis Bush, better known as Jeb — or, as his new campaign logo renders the name, "Jeb!" — said in a speech formally announcing his candidacy, at Miami Dade College, on Monday.
This allows capital assets to be passed on to one's heirs at their appreciated value: if you bought a share of stock for $100 decades ago and it's now worth $1,000, it's valued at the higher figure when your heirs inherit it.
In another, the community is seen as individual agents and crime is a contagious disease that can be passed on from one person to another forming an epidemic.
