#epigenesys

Heralding a New ERA of Increased Life Expectancy and Good Health

Improving human health has been enormously helped by deciphering the human genome. Yet if we are to better understand physical processes, for example the onset of disease or the impact of ageing, we need to know more about how genes are actually organised and expressed, as well as their sequence. Problems with this control mechanism, referred to as our ‘epigenome’ have been implicated in common…