{"id":2393,"date":"2023-10-27T23:05:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:02:53","slug":"sperm-mediated-epigenetic-inheritance-genesis-and-propagation-of-extrachromosomal-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/sperm-mediated-epigenetic-inheritance-genesis-and-propagation-of-extrachromosomal-information\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSperm-Mediated Epigenetic Inheritance, Genesis and Propagation of Extrachromosomal Information\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Corrado Spadafora, PhD, Sperm-mediated Epigenetic Inheritance, Genesis and Propagation of Extrach...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-KpMuq9dmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Corrado Spadafora, PhD<\/strong>, Italian National Research Council, Visiting Scientist, Bedford Research Foundation at the 2023 Activated Egg Symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Spadafora\u2019s pioneering reports of epigenetic cargo carried into eggs by sperm was initially very controversial and is now a recognized sperm activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 2025: The Bedford Research Foundation and colleagues around the world <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/colleagues-in-memoriam\/\">mourn the passing of\u00a0<strong>Dr. Corrado Spadafora<\/strong><\/a>, a pioneering scientist whose ideas reshaped modern reproductive biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corrado Spadafora, PhD, Italian National Research Council, Visiting Scientist, Bedford Research Foundation at the 2023 Activated Egg Symposium. Dr. Spadafora\u2019s pioneering reports of epigenetic cargo carried into eggs by sperm was initially very controversial and is now a recognized sperm activity. November 2025: The Bedford Research Foundation and colleagues around the world mourn the passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-human-egg-activation_the-influence-of-sperm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedfordresearch.org\/symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}