Mendel's Garden #14

By razib on May 8, 2007.

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Epigenetics Alert! UStream "Office Hours" with Duke's Randy Jirtle today at noon EST

Here's a great, last-minute opportunity to interact one-on-one with a major player in the field of environmental and dietary influences on gene expression. From the Duke University Office of News and Communications: Charles Darwin famously reasoned that genetic traits change over many generations…

A Brand New Tangled Bank

#79 is up at Epigenetics News.

What is epigenetics?

I think understanding the basics of inheritance is pretty easy for most people - the traits of parents are passed down from parents to offspring. Simple! Humans have known and exploited this fact for thousands of years. When Gregor Mendel came along, he meticulously worked out some mathematical…

Tangled Bank #79

The latest edition of the Tangled Bank is live at Epigenetics News.

iam a mvsc genetics student. this one is very helpfull to me.thank you .

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