Showing posts with label epigenetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epigenetics. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Obesity and diabetes: Actual epigenetics or just IVF?

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This press release that appeared in my newsfeed titled " You are what your parents ate! " caught my eye because I'm a new mom ...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Epigenetics: what is it and what isn't it? Part I: basic ideas

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E pigenetics is a word that has had a variety of meanings historically, and it's sometimes unclearly employed, even by the user.  But t...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Remembrance of things past--in your genes? Part III: Was Lamarck so laughable?

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A favorite sport of those holding to strict Darwinian views (to the extent they understand Darwin),  is to ridicule Jean Baptiste de Lamarc...
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Monday, June 15, 2015

Remembrance of things past--in your genes? Part I: Is epigenetics 'Lamarckian'?

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M arcel Proust's epic novel, In Remembrance of Things Past , was a 20th century masterpiece of thoughtful reflections.  It is about smal...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Epigenomics: the germ of an idea

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T he 19 February issue of Nature has many papers reporting a major human epigenomics project (other Nature journals have other papers from...
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Friday, July 11, 2014

The anti-Lamarckian gut reaction: keep the bar high--but your minds open

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B iologists tend to ridicule Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for his version of evolution, expressed in his 1809   Philosophie Zoologique .  Laughing...
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