Essay On Epigenetics

Epigenetics

When we talk about epigenetics, we start to wonder about the advances that these studies have brought to modern science and where the future will take us when we master the manipulation of genes. Epigenetics is the study of the changes in mechanism of the mitotically and meiotically inherited genes, in other words is the study of cellular traits differences that are not caused by variations in the DNA. For example if you had a twin and at birth that you were separated, and your twin grew up in India and you grew up in the United States, by age 25 you will be so different, even though you came from the same cell and have the same DNA. We can say that this changes are naturally attributed to the “Nature, Nurture” debate in which physical features can be identical to those of your identical twin even your DNA since you come from the same cell, but as you get older the environment stars shaping you, your personality, your talents even your health.

Imagine if your family has a high risk for cancer and now you are doom to have this illness in your own family, even in your own body. With the advances in epigenetics this worries would be just another vaccine away, you and your family will not have to worry about carrying this gene because scientist will be able to change those carcinogens so they do not attack your cells, and

The second approach is to use the same drug that will change the genotype in the cell and makes it vulnerable, once this is accomplished the patients are exposed to immune therapy this way your own immune system will go and fight these weak cells and take care of defeating the