Cardiovascular diseases are still the leading causes of death on the surface of the earth. They are mainly disorders of the heart and blood vessels. What if one could tell long in advance—way before symptoms and signs could appear—who’s at risk? Well, that is the science of genomics. In the genes, awesome insight is available into this rather complicated world ...
Every time you think about genetics, the first thing that comes into your mind is a sort of instruction inscribed within your DNA, like on a blueprint, that is going to define who and what you are. How would you feel if somebody told you those instructions were not written in stone? That’s where epigenetics comes in. Epigenetics is the ...