Timothy Spector is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, and the author of Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes.
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Timothy Spector
Commentaries by Timothy Spector
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The Age of Epigenetics
LONDON – Fifty-one years ago, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins, and Francis Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery …
The Age of Epigenetics
Nathan Coppedge: "For example, smoking could have caused epigenetic changes in a grandparent’s DNA, effectively switching off certain anti-cancer genes. The genes would then be passed down to descendants in this switc…
The Age of Epigenetics
Anatoli Scholz: This is a terrifying, yet also importat thought, that we are indeed more directly responsible than previously assumed of our behaviour and habits. It apparently goes on to affect not only us and our i…