As a cancer researcher, do you think the mechanisms of tumor growth are somehow changing to come into line with your perceptions, or is it
possible that the process of our learning more about DNA mutations and cell architecture and nutrient exchange and
epigenetic effects make it
possible for us to inch ever closer to understanding that which is already going on under our noses?
The thing that was surprising to the scientists was the size of the
effect — children differ in how fat they are, but measurement of the
epigenetic change at birth made it
possible for the scientists to predict 25 % of this variation.