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Epigenetics: Taking Responsibility for our Lives
Author: Fernando SchwarzApril 17, 2020
Most scientists used to be convinced that living beings were simply the product of their genes and that we were predetermined and condemned to suffer by a genetic program inherited from our ancestors. The last 20 years of research in the life sciences have completely overturned this belief. They have shown that we can have [...]
Epigenetics, The Science of Change
Author: Florimond KrinsAugust 16, 2017
Epigenetics is the science that studies the biological mechanisms that switch genes on and off, that make them active or inactive, without involving any changes in the DNA sequence. Having a gene switched on or off will change how the cells read the gene, read the information and how the cells produce proteins. To give [...]