Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics
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The Evolution of Fly DNA
The fly DNA that has this sequence on it is able to find the complementary sequence in humans. That's what's telling you that we also have an DNA. These permeoboxes, these sequences. Then we can do some similar DNA interrogation experiments to understand these sequences. Because I'm psychic, I can tell what listeners are thinking now. They're imagining Jeff Goldblum in that horror movie, The Fly, cross-species hybridization. But to be clear, by linking two bits of DNA, you're not making human-flucking hybrids. No, no. In fact, this was all done in a test tube and on pieces of filter paper and outside of the body,.
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