Thread by @AnishA_Moonka

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)

Everyone should be able to understand.