You can't always blame your parents: Alberto Perez at TEDxSBU
You look more like your dad
...you have the smile of your mother
... How many times have we heard similar things?
DNA is often named the code of life
..having all the information about who we are. But what if there's more? Can our environment and decisions change the way that information is used? And can those effects be passed on to our children and grandchildren?
Apparently so!
Listen to three simple stories that will introduce you to epigenetics: how it is changing the way we think about our DNA, the potential it has for future medicine to deal with genetic diseases and treating cancers with less side effects.
What is epigenetics and how does it affect us?
As a molecular biologist,
Alberto Perez uses supercomputers to study life at the atomic level. He got his PhD from the
University of ...