Today’s headline is really just an excuse to mention Girls Aloud.
Here’s a fun Twitter thread about biology and bio-hacking. It’s sent me to Amazon to find out more about epigenetics, which seems awfully interesting and exciting.
So if we use a house as a metaphor: your genes are the blueprints, your epigentics are the engineers that read the blueprints and tell contractors how to build it, and your phenotype is the finished structure.
— Crystal Frasier (@AmazonChique) April 16, 2018
Your epigenetics read your DNA, and switches certain genes on and off as needed. For example: Every cell in your body has the DNA to be a liver cell. The only thing preventing you from being a mass of liver cells is your epigenetics saying “lets maybe build some nerve cells”
— Crystal Frasier (@AmazonChique) April 16, 2018
Please do read the whole thing. I wish biology had been explained so vividly when I was at school.