Perceptions of epigenetics
- 23 May 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 447 (7143), 396-398
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05913
Abstract
Geneticists study the gene; however, for epigeneticists, there is no obvious 'epigene'. Nevertheless, during the past year, more than 2,500 articles, numerous scientific meetings and a new journal were devoted to the subject of epigenetics. It encompasses some of the most exciting contemporary biology and is portrayed by the popular press as a revolutionary new science — an antidote to the idea that we are hard-wired by our genes. So what is epigenetics?Keywords
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