What we would have predicted, given recent discoveries in epigenetic effects The nematode (round worm), Caenorhabditis elegans — that I wrote about two days ago, regarding extra-chromosomal inheritance of acquired characteristics — is also involved in a new discovery about disease variations between people with essentially identical sequences of DNA codons. In Spain, a research [...]
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