Sentences with phrase «epigeneticists study»

Your genes are not your destiny; epigeneticists study how genes can be turned off and on — and one major way is through food!

Not exact matches

One caveat of the study is that the researchers did not control for the early life history of the adult macaques, even though many studies have shown that early life adversity can have lifelong effects on health, says Michael Kobor, an epigeneticist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who was not involved with the work.

«The problem is, all of the studies we've done so far have been correlative,» says cancer epigeneticist Lanlan Shen, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who led the new study.

Here, Bell and Spector argue that twin studies are «considerably more powerful discovery tools than studies on singletons» for the epigeneticist.