FBL97: Nessa Carey - Epigenetics & Gene Editing
The Singularity Discussion Series
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The Epigenetic Shift in Development
As the embryo becomes increasingly differentiated, what you see is that epigenetic modifications are being established and if they're turning certain genes on or keeping certain genes repressed. Those are really important for how we maintain different cell types. The cells in your retina look completely different from the cells in your kidney. So it's both an on off switch and a volume switch - there's all sorts of other cellular systems as well but it's a really important system.
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