Epigenetics arise! | Gene Expression from Discover Blog by Razib Khan

If Mike Lynch and Jerry Coyne have fits over Sean B. Carroll’s love affair with gene regulation at the expense of old fashion sequence variation, I wonder how they’ll view the inflation of epigenetics which is liable to get more out of control before people begin to gain a sense of perspective. I see on Amazon there are already some suspect titles trying to use epigenetics as stepping stones. For example, Happiness Genes: Unlock the Positive Potential Hidden in Your DNA. One of the blurbs [...]

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American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half Of Its Food (and what we can do about it) from Discover - Health & Medicine by Sheril Kirshenbaum

So far, American Wasteland is packed with a lot of startling information compiled an an easy to digest package. Bloom presents the topic in an engaging style and tackles related issues from many angles by looking at each step in the process from industry to consumer. Ultimately he provides real world solutions that might just work to waste less and distribute more–if we makes some big changes.

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