Adrian Bird, Howard Cedar and Aharon Razin were hotly tipped to win this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine for their pioneering work in the field of epigenetics. They didn’t win. But their nomination is a triumph for an area of science too often dismissed as a phenomenon and a landmark in our small field’s history.
Epigentics is the study of how chemical changes caused by our environment can alter our gene expression – without altering DNA structure. My work with identical twins has shown just how different people with the same genes and the same upbringing can turn out to be and how we may not be as hard-wired as we like to think.
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