A thread on the snippets (paragraphs & quotes) from the book ‘The Epigenetics Revolution’ by Nessa Carey
All your cells (200 types) in your body have the same DNA, so how does a brain cell differs from a blood cell?
This thread will be updated as I read further & further.
1/ Your DNA is the script & the two different movies are the cells.
The Epigenome is the one culprit. This is the one who interprets a DNA code as per it’s need.
: Listen this amazing Explanation.
2/ “Invert, always invert” ~ Charlie Munger.
This is what he means by that quote. Try to view a same problem from multiple lens.
3/ The scientific explanation.
4/ The miraculous piece of work that is the human body.
5/ This is what the now Wolf prize winner & the Nobel Laureate, John Gurdon was told in school.
Now Listen to this Poem by Charles Bukowski: & think.
6/ “To see what everyone else has seen but to think what nobody else has thought.”
Best definition of a great scientist.
7/ The best scientific experiments are designed to disprove, not to prove an idea.
Same should be applied in making a stock investment.
8/ “Sometimes the greatest scientific breakthroughs happen because someone ignores the prevailing pessimism.”
Replace scientific breakthroughs with investments & it’s valid.
9/ Simplest explanation of DNA.
10/ Why even a single mutation in DNA can have devastating effects.
11/ The science behind developing an alcohol tolerance.
12/ Fascinating.
13/ The obesity pandemic that we are currently facing will have reverberations over the next generations 😤
14/ The Battle of the sexes.
15/ Just wow.
16/ How new theories take over old theories in science. Same is valid in Investing.
17/ What we find depends depends very much on how we are looking.
18/ Biologically speaking, this explains why we derive from Chimpanzees.
Humans & chimps split just 40 lakh years ago (small time, evolutionarily)
19/ Some part of us is actually, perfect the way it is: Proteins.
How does biology codes for more complex & sophisticated organisms? By altering the regulations of these proteins, not altering the proteins themselves.
20/ Scientist who discovered the Si-RNA technology receives a Nobel Prize.
A book in 2012 talks about the various risks involved in drugs using that tech👇
2018- FDA Approves First-Ever siRNA Therapy (an orphan drug)
biologicsblog.com/fda-approves-f…
Another reason to be optimistic.
21/ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny ....’ ~ Isaac Asimov.
22/ Cancer is heterogeneous.
23/ Depression & it’s complexity.
24/ The growth of the cosmetic industry to fight ageing has been relentless.
25/ Simplest way to live longer.
26/ Nature is smarter than people think. ~Mickey, the movie ‘Rocky V’
27/ Butterfly 🦋 = caterpillar 🐛
28/ I like such endings, not tipsy for the sake of it, real.
Overall, a must read for the geneticist 🧬 inside you. However, A bit dry at times.
End of Thread.
Presentation on What is Epigenetics? - with Nessa Carey (the writer herself)
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