Tag: Epigenetics

• A spur to prick the sides of my intent

  Suppose it were possible to change things about your own birth? What a great idea, right? Just think what that might mean: at the very least, perhaps, that you would not be imprisoned by whatever genetics you were allotted; you might actually have a chance to be the master of your own fate; and if […]

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  March 3, 2021

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  Ada Jaarsma, Aeon.co, DNA, Epigenetics, existence precedes essence, existentialism, Feminism, inheritance, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mount Royal University in Calgary, philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir, stories

• The Mom and Pop Team

  From time to time, I think we all need reassurance that we matter. That our seat at the game has not been taken by someone else. Could not be taken… Maybe that’s why we’re given names -so there’s no mistake. And if we’re not there all the time, it’s only because we sometimes have other […]

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  April 3, 2019

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  Cardiff University, epididymis, Epigenetics, genomic imprinting, Igf2 gene, Igf2r gene, male role in pregnancy, paternal genes, Phlda2 gene, procreation, Rosalind John, small RNAs, Smithsonian Magazine, sperm

• Food for Thought

  There’s something encouraging about the fact that we are not simply our genes. We’ve moved on -evolved, I guess. They are still the recipes, the instructions, but as every chef knows, you don’t always have to include all of the ingredients to get a good result. Genes are perhaps more akin to a first draft […]

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  September 24, 2015

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  BBC news, Dutch Famine, Epigenetics, evolution, Flanders and Swann, food, food culture, Gambia, genes, genetic evolution, methylation, MRC, prenatal nutrition, recipes