In the meantime, the more we
know about epigenetic changes, the more we realize the correlation between our actions and, not only our own lives, but the lives of our children.
I was a milk bank donor, and I really resent people with healthy full term babies selfishly obtaining that milk because of
superstition about epigenetics.
His breakthrough came when, after hearing a
talk about epigenetic markers — chemical modifications that affect gene expression — he tried to block epigenetic mechanisms in his assays on the chance that these might be underlying his failure to induce the retrotransposon's expression and mobility.
This new insight into how chromosomes are disassembled and reassembled during cell division will allow researchers to begin answering basic
questions about epigenetic inheritance, as well as human disease such as chromosome disorders and cancer.
The man in question is Andrew Feinberg, a leading geneticist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; the bar is The Hung, Drawn and Quartered, a pub within the shadow of the Tower of London; and what's written on the piece of paper could fundamentally alter the way we
think about epigenetics, evolution and common diseases.
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With many more such drugs in the pipeline, interest «is going to start snowballing as we understand how drugs modulate these pathways,» says University of Illinois pharmacologist Julio Duarte, whose paper, «Epigenetics Primer: Why the Clinician Should
Care About Epigenetics,» appeared inPharmacotherapy this year.
[For more
about epigenetics, see «The New Genetics of Mental Illness,» by Edmund S. Higgins; Scientific American Mind, June / July 2008.]