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Twins, colored mice and Danish mothers

Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 15 at 19:30 in the sala Verdaguer of the Ateneu of Barcelona, Manel Esteller, of the Gene Therapies and Transplant group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Insitute (IDIBELL), will give the talk entitled “Bessons, ratolins de colors i mares daneses, i si Lamarck tingués una mica de raó?” (“Twins, Colored Mice and Danish Mothers, what if Lamarck was partially right?”). The lecture forms part of Ateneu series on science called “Adéu als gens omnipotents” (“Goodbye to the omnipotent genes”).

14 june 2010

Studies of twins that have the same DNA and yet develop different characters, skills or diseases reveal the crucial role of environment in the modulation of the genetic base. Epigenetics, one of the most advanced disciplines of science today, is collecting fresh proof of this with each passing day. Moreover, this discipline is proving that the inheritance of certain acquired characteristics, one of the processes marginalized by traditional theories of evolutionary science, could be a valid and essential mechanism for evolution.

This latest edition of the Ateneu’s series on science goes from micro to macro. It starts talking about how the panorama of the genome has been complicated, leaving space for environmental action directly on the genes (epigenetics), and then broadens to the social determinants of health, i.e. how the social environment as a whole is involved in the health conditions of individuals. 

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