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Epigenetics: Conducting the Symphony of Genetics

By Michael Helmstetter — 2021

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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