{"id":4937,"date":"2010-01-11T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/gotta-love-it-even-the-daycare\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:00:52","slug":"gotta-love-it-even-the-daycare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/genetic-medicine\/gotta-love-it-even-the-daycare.php","title":{"rendered":"Gotta Love It. Even the daycare……."},"content":{"rendered":"

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So the other day I go to pick up my oldest and the businesswoman who runs the show said to me \"I have a question\" I quickly see her Time Magazine with the cover which asks \"Can we change our genes\"<\/span><\/p>


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I immediately launch into a diatribe about epigenetics. The current state of epigenetics is even murkier than micro RNAs. I basically go on a rant and at the end she says \"So can those cigarettes I smoked as a kid screw up my grandson?\"<\/span><\/div>

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OMFG!!! This is why I hate TIME magazine.<\/a> AND the lay press, AND the secondary education system in this country...AND.........<\/span><\/div>

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Ok, here is the real take on Epigenetics. It is a control system, plain and simple, just like these RNAs and whatever else may control t he rate at which DNA does its dance.<\/span><\/div>

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Monogenetic disease importance is pretty clear.... <\/span><\/div>

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Gene Broken (of important protein\/etc) + No Repair = Disease Phenotype<\/span><\/div>

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But when you can compensate with other genes, or even multiple copies of the same gene or EVEN by upregulating similar genes to carry the load, you have a different story. Which is the story that you will soon hear being told. <\/span><\/div>

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The reason our organism exists here is because:<\/span><\/div>

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1. We repair our DNA damage pretty well, when we don't we die, usually of cancer<\/span><\/div>
2. We have redundancy mechanisms which, we will find out have epigenetic control<\/span><\/div>
3. We pass these adaptations on to our kin in multiple ways through behavior as well as, ribonucleic acids, as well as methylation and acetylation and......G-d only knows<\/span><\/div>

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Do we have any idea how the \"F\" all of this works. No, which is why I beg all of you hungry reporters working as freelance or as staff reporters for the will known as Time, please stop hyping \"the NEXT BIG THING\"<\/span><\/div>

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God Damn now I am gonna have to deflate the epigenetics balloon too????<\/span><\/div>

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Pretty soon everyone will be saying, WE HAVE A RIGHT TO A PROPER EPIGENTICALLY MODIFIED GENOME<\/a>! I can see it now.......<\/span><\/div>

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The Sherpa Says: How about extra methylation causing cancer? How about low methylation ALSO causing cancer? Don't believe me? Pub Med it....... <\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>
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