Sentences with phrase «alter our genes throughout»

That explanation came later, with the burgeoning new field of epigenetics — the study of how the external environment can alter our genes throughout life, and even be passed on to future generations.

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When the gene is altered, the spellchecker is deactivated and mutations accumulate throughout the cell.

With the advent of new, more efficient, and targeted gene - editing techniques such as CRISPR / Cas9, gene modifications can, in principle, be spread throughout a population of living organisms intentionally and quickly via a gene drive, circumventing traditional rules of inheritance and greatly increasing the odds that an altered gene spreads throughout a population.

An individual's gene sequence is determined at conception, but the external environment and an individual's lifestyle can change the epigenetic sequence throughout a lifetime, continually altering how genes are expressed.

MIT's Oye, for instance, raises the «most extreme scenario» of bioterrorists altering the genomes of disease - causing organisms to make them more lethal or more infectious, and using gene drives to spread that trait throughout a population.