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2009-04-07 |

Bioscientists focus on the new, vast potential of epigenetics

The human genome is an indisputably stunning piece of work: 25,000 or so genes containing all of the essential instructions for building a being. Still, it’s only a guide. Alone, the genome cannot construct a person. The ”book of life” requires a vocabulary of attendant molecules, compounds and chemicals – a biochemical language, so to speak – to help genes write the individual story of you. Altogether, this phenomenon is called epigenetics. Its study represents one of the cutting edges of bioscience, offering the possibility of not just curing diseases like cancer and diabetes, but preventing them altogether.

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2009-04-07 |

Bioscientists focus on the new, vast potential of epigenetics

The human genome is an indisputably stunning piece of work: 25,000 or so genes containing all of the essential instructions for building a being. Still, it’s only a guide. Alone, the genome cannot construct a person. The ”book of life” requires a vocabulary of attendant molecules, compounds and chemicals – a biochemical language, so to speak – to help genes write the individual story of you. Altogether, this phenomenon is called epigenetics. Its study represents one of the cutting edges of bioscience, offering the possibility of not just curing diseases like cancer and diabetes, but preventing them altogether.

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