Excerpt: A new wave of research is unravelling the secrets beyond genes to identify what other biological ‘information’ parents pass to their offspring, and cells pass on to each when they divide. It seems that it is not just genes that are inherited from one generation to the next but other factors that particularly affect development and disease.

http://www.pi.csiro.au/enewsletter/PDF/PI_info_Epigenetics.pdf

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