Bibliograph

Introducing epigenetics, a graphic guide, Cath Ennis & Oliver Pugh

Type

Label

Introducing epigenetics, a graphic guide, Cath Ennis & Oliver Pugh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 176)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Introducing epigenetics

Nature of contents

comics graphic novelsbibliography

Oclc number

953001031

Responsibility statement

Cath Ennis & Oliver Pugh

Series statement

Introducing

Sub title

a graphic guide

Summary

"Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book explores what identical twins can teach us about the epigenetic effects of our environment and experiences, why certain genes are 'switched on' or off at various stages of embryonic development, and how scientists have reversed the specialization of cells to clone frogs from a single gut cell. Cath Ennis and Oliver Pugh pull apart the double helix, examining how the epigenetic building blocks and messengers that interpret and edit our genes help to make us, well, us."--Page 4 of cover

Table Of Contents

Genes, RNA and proteins -- Chromosomes, nucleosomes and chromatin -- DNA replication and mitosis -- Meiosis and inheritance -- Beyond the DNA sequence: gene regulation -- Nature and nurture -- Twin studies -- The history of epigenetics -- The discovery of chromatin modifications -- The modern understanding of epigenetic modifications -- DNA methylation --Histone modifications -- Chromatin remodelling -- Nuclear location -- RNA -- Interactions between different epigenetic modifications -- Epigenetics explains what genetics alone cannot -- Epigenetics changes during embryonic development -- X chromosome inactivation -- How our environment affects our genes -- Not so identical twins -- Epigenetic inheritance -- Epigenetic inheritance in animal models -- Human epigenetic inheritance: the Dutch hunger winter -- Human epigenetic inheritance: Överkalix -- Mechanism of epigenetic inheritance -- Epigenetics in evolution -- Epigenetics in disease: ageing -- Epigenetics in disease: inherited mutations in epigenetic regulations -- Epigenetics in disease: imprinting errors -- The epigenetics of cancer -- Epigenetics in medicine -- Stem cell therapies -- Epigenetics and pseudoscience -- The future of epigenetics -- Epigenomics -- New epigenetic modifications -- The epitranscriptome -- Epigenetic editing -- Epigen-ethics -- Looking ahead -- Glossary

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