# @science on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSdWAdOkquq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38101126-science-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-19T20:30:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Science 🧬 (@science) — https://gondola.cc/science

## Caption

Personality changes following heart transplantation, which have been reported for decades, include accounts of recipients acquiring the personality characteristics of their donor. There are four categories of personality changes: 1. changes in preferences, 2. alterations in emotions/temperament, 3. modifications of identity, and 4. memories from the donor's life.⁠
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The acquisition of donor personality characteristics by recipients following heart transplantation is hypothesized to occur via the transfer of cellular memory, and four types of cellular memory are presented: 1. epigenetic memory, 2. DNA memory, 3. RNA memory, and 4. protein memory.⁠
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transplant, science, memories, transplantation, medicine, biology, donor

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