Open Questions

A few items in this issue of the Report explore a hodge-podge of questions associated with cutting-edge genetics research. In the lead article, Charles Dupras and Vardit Ravitsky look at research into epigenetics, which refers to molecular mechanisms that affect how genes are expressed. As Dupras an...

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Published: 2016
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2016, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 2
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