The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The advantages are small RNAs that match the viral genome and just chop up that virus in the next generation. And we can identify these small RNAs in the inhibitory RNAs in the descendants, although they don't have the machinery to make it, just because they inherited.
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And they inherited small RNAs only if their parents were infected with them.
The only way for them to stay black for them, not having the virus replicate is if they inherit the small RNAs from their parents. And this is exactly what happens. All the worms' progeny, although they don't have the gene that is needed for making the small RNAs, are black. They silence the virus.