Category: Epigenetics

  • Epigenetics, what it is, and ain’t

    In case you didn’t see, I have a post on epigenetics up, You can’t take it with you: straight talk about epigenetics and intergenerational trauma, which will probably be my […]

  • The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 26: The Epigenetics Revolution

    The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 26: The Epigenetics RevolutionThis week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts) Razib talks about the “Epigenetics Revolution” with John Greally of Albert Einstein School of Medi…

  • The misunderstanding of epigenetics

    Conrad Waddington’s “epigenetic landscape”In most graduate programs students must complete a series of oral exams or make a presentation to professors to “qualify” to proceed in their research. The goal here is to make sure that a student goes forward …

  • Breaking the “Central Dogma”

    Epigenetics is making it “big time,” Slate has a review up of the new book Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance. In case you don’t know epigenetics in terms of “what it means/why it matters” holds out the promi…

  • Epigenetics – what revolution?

    A reader who goes by the handle “biologist,” and happens to be a molecular geneticist by training, states more clearly what is probably close to my own position (though he is far more well informed) in the comments below. I think it’s worth promoting: As far as I can tell, the existence of epigenetic mechanisms…

  • Arise the vehicle! Arise the cell!

    A quick follow up to my post Epigenetics arise! Adam Keiper, the editor of The New Atlantis, has graciously sent me a copy of the article, Getting Over the Code Delusion. I’ve also been told that the piece will be free to all on the website at any moment, so I invite readers to […]

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