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Scientific Heretic Rupert Sheldrake on Morphic Fields, Psychic Dogs and Other Mysteries

By John Horgan — 2014

For decades, I’ve been only dimly aware of Rupert Sheldrake as a renegade British biologist who argues that telepathy and other paranormal phenomena (sometimes lumped under the term psi) should be taken more seriously by the scientific establishment.

Read on blogs.scientificamerican.com

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Epigenetics: Conducting the Symphony of Genetics

For all the hype, fear and misinformation that surrounds the application of gene editing, there is an equally powerful technology that offers much the same in potential benefit. This technology, epigenetics, is a natural process that has gone largely unremarked by consumers.

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Michael Helmstetter
2021
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Epigenetics and Child Development: How Children’s Experiences Affect Their Genes

Scientific research shows that experiences can affect whether and how genes are expressed. Nature vs. Nurture is no longer a debate—it's nearly always both!

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Center on the Developing Child Content Team
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Epigenetics: How Your Life Could Change the Cells of Your Grandkids

If your DNA is the unique 'song of you', your epigenomes are the audio engineers that decide how that music will be played — which bits are loud, or edited out, whether the melody is dominant or maybe the drums are lost altogether.

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Kylie Andrews
2017
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A Super Brief and Basic Explanation of Epigenetics for Total Beginners

Epigenetics is the study of biological mechanisms that will switch genes on and off, to be put as a simplified definition. What does that mean? Well, if you are new to this whole thing, we first need a quick crash course in biochemistry and genetics before learning exactly what is epigenetics.

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What is Epigenetics Team
2019
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What Is Epigenetics, and Why Is Everyone Talking about It?

It’s not uncommon to read headlines about the “epigenetic revolution” and hear claims that epigenetics overthrows our understanding of evolution. So what exactly is epigenetics? How does it work? And why does it matter?

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Matthew Tontonoz
2018
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What Ails Us

Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.

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Tracy Frisch, Gabor Mate
2012
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Identical Twins Hint at How Environments Change Gene Expression

Studying twins has long offered insight into the interplay of nature and nurture. Epigenetics is the next frontier.

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Erika Hayasaki
2018
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Genes as Mirrors of Life Experiences

Scientists are turning their focus to an emerging field: epigenetics, the study of how people’s experience and environment affect the function of their genes.

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Benedict Carey
2010
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How Much of a Pull Do Your Genetics Have on Your Weight?

There are many factors at play when it comes to your weight, and genetics is certainly one of them.

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Kelly Glass
2020
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How to Tell If You Inherited Emotional Trauma + How to Let It Go

With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don't deal with, pass on to my kids? Without knowing it, could I be hurting them?

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Mark Wolynn
2020
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