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You guys, epigenetics is really neat stuff; it’s one of the reasons I’m so interested in genetics. What your grandparents eat, how they live, where they live, all that stuff.. it all has an effect on your parents, you, your kids, the kids of your kids.
The stuff Hank touches on in this short video is explained in more detail (fascinating detail!) in The Ghost in Your Genes, which has the added bonus of a scientist who is so happy about his research that he cries.
Watch The Ghost in Your Genes here, read about it here. Wiki article on epigenetics.
Epigenetics [by scishow]
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eScience Institute 2012 Seminar Series
Please join us for the eScience Institute 2012 seminar series. We look forward to seeing you there!
February 7, 4 PM (EE303)
Mike Kellen (Sage Bionetworks)
Synapse, the collaborative computational platform currently under development for the Sage Bionetworks Commons
March 6, 4 PM (EE303)
Andrew Ban (Arzeda)
Enzyme Design in the Cloud
April 3, 4 PM (EE303) YongChul Kwon (UW, Magdalena Balazinska lab)
Databases for scientific computing
May 1, 4 PM (EE303)
Jacob VanderPlas (UW, Andrew Connolly lab)
Machine learning for cosmology
Refreshments (drinks and pizza) will be provided.
Fish on a Bicycle: I'm telling a salmon story at Town Hall - come see!
I will be giving a talk about my research aimed at a general audience for the FIRST TIME EVER in a little less than a week (details here). I’m not sure what to expect. An audience of hundreds or a bunch of empty seats? Salmon conservation folk who ask tough questions, or just generally curious…
House of Mind: Epigenetics
The term epigenetics was introduced in the 1940s by Conrad Waddington, who defined it as: ‘‘the branch of biology which studies the causal interactions between genes and their products which bring the phenotype into being.’’ However, with the growth and evolution of genetics, the term gained a…
Will global warming breed a race of super-smart lizards?
While lizards hatched in warmer temperatures seem a bit smarter, if it gets too hot the lizards’ physical development will become stunted.
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via National Geographic:
They have the same piercing eyes. The same color hair. One may be shy, while the other loves meeting new people. Discovering why identical twins differ—despite having the same DNA—could reveal a great deal about all of us.
Every summer, on the first weekend in August, thousands of twins converge on Twinsburg, Ohio, a small town southeast of Cleveland named by identical twin brothers nearly two centuries ago.
They come, two by two, for the Twins Days Festival, a three-day marathon of picnics, talent shows, and look-alike contests that has grown into one of the world’s largest gatherings of twins.
[…]
The idea of using twins to measure the influence of heredity dates back to 1875, when the English scientist Francis Galton first suggested the approach (and coined the phrase “nature and nurture”). But twin studies took a surprising twist in the 1980s, following the discovery of numerous identical twins who’d been separated at birth.
The story began with the much publicized case of two brothers, both named Jim. Born in Piqua, Ohio, in 1939, Jim Springer and Jim Lewis were put up for adoption as babies and raised by different couples, who happened to give them the same first name. When Jim Springer reconnected with his brother at age 39 in 1979, they uncovered a string of other similarities and coincidences. Both men were six feet tall and weighed 180 pounds. Growing up, they’d both had dogs named Toy and taken family vacations in St. Pete Beach in Florida. As young men, they’d both married women named Linda, and then divorced them. Their second wives were both named Betty. They named their sons James Alan and James Allan. They’d both served as part-time sheriffs, enjoyed home carpentry projects, suffered severe headaches, smoked Salem cigarettes, and drank Miller Lite beer. Although they wore their hair differently—Jim Springer had bangs, while Jim Lewis combed his hair straight back—they had the same crooked smile, their voices were indistinguishable, and they both admitted to leaving love notes around the house for their wives.
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On the interesting biochemistry of monozygotic twins.](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/genefish/16238723829/1/tumblr_lxji1pC5Rv1qaxrh5)
They have the same piercing eyes. The same color hair. One may be shy, while the other loves meeting new people. Discovering why identical twins differ—despite having the same DNA—could reveal a great deal about all of us.
Every summer, on the first weekend in August, thousands of twins converge on Twinsburg, Ohio, a small town southeast of Cleveland named by identical twin brothers nearly two centuries ago.
They come, two by two, for the Twins Days Festival, a three-day marathon of picnics, talent shows, and look-alike contests that has grown into one of the world’s largest gatherings of twins.
[…]
The idea of using twins to measure the influence of heredity dates back to 1875, when the English scientist Francis Galton first suggested the approach (and coined the phrase “nature and nurture”). But twin studies took a surprising twist in the 1980s, following the discovery of numerous identical twins who’d been separated at birth.
The story began with the much publicized case of two brothers, both named Jim. Born in Piqua, Ohio, in 1939, Jim Springer and Jim Lewis were put up for adoption as babies and raised by different couples, who happened to give them the same first name. When Jim Springer reconnected with his brother at age 39 in 1979, they uncovered a string of other similarities and coincidences. Both men were six feet tall and weighed 180 pounds. Growing up, they’d both had dogs named Toy and taken family vacations in St. Pete Beach in Florida. As young men, they’d both married women named Linda, and then divorced them. Their second wives were both named Betty. They named their sons James Alan and James Allan. They’d both served as part-time sheriffs, enjoyed home carpentry projects, suffered severe headaches, smoked Salem cigarettes, and drank Miller Lite beer. Although they wore their hair differently—Jim Springer had bangs, while Jim Lewis combed his hair straight back—they had the same crooked smile, their voices were indistinguishable, and they both admitted to leaving love notes around the house for their wives.
On the interesting biochemistry of monozygotic twins.
