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| Title: | Epigenetics: New Buzzword in Biotechnology |
| Authors: | Mishra, Arvind |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | Many environmental factors like diet, stress and
prenatal nutrition can make an imprint on our genes, which can then get passed
from one generation to the next through these epigenetic marks. Epigenetics
examines the inheritance of characteristics that are not set out in the DNA
sequence. A renowned science writer and the author of the book, The Genius
in All of Us: Why Everything You Have Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ
Is Wrong, David Shenk, calls “epigenetics the most important discovery in
the science of heredity since the gene.” The journal Science too published a special issue on Epigenetics as early
as in 2001 |
| Page(s): | 35-37 |
| Source: | SR Vol.47(08) [August 2010]
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