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"EPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING can be explained as any mitotic or meiotic changing which does not result any alteration in DNA sequence but will have important effect on the normal embryonic development." (Explained or defined?). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2305050015000524 View in LinkedIn

ESSENTIAL. "In recent years, it has become consummately clear that changing of epigenetic modification is essential during both early and late oogenesis and spermatogenesis." https://lnkd.in/gCPVDZd View in LinkedIn

Routine DNA tests will put NHS at the 'forefront of medicine' https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/03/nhs-routine-dna-tests-precision-cancer-tumour-screening?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

TWO FATES. "Epigenetic information is frequently erased near the start of each new generation. In some cases, however, epigenetic information can be transmitted from parent to progeny (multigenerational epigenetic inheritance)." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7416/abs/nature11352.html View in LinkedIn

REPROGRAMMING. "It has long been suspected that epigenetic modifications could play a role in limiting the developmental potential of a tissue during the complex pattern of tissue differentiation. This has led to the idea that a fundamental aspect of the difference between the ‘‘mortal’’ soma and the ‘‘immortal’’ germline may be the ability to reprogram the genome of the germ cells epigenetically in order to maintain totipotency." View in LinkedIn

EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. “We provide a unique demonstration of a spatial memory system in a nonneuronal organism, supporting the theory that an externalized spatial memory may be the functional precursor to the internal memory of higher organisms.” http://www.pnas.org/content/109/43/17490.full View in LinkedIn

BRAINLESS MEMORY. “Spatial memory enhances an organism’s navigational ability. Memory typically resides within the brain, but what if an organism has no brain? We show that the brainless slime mold Physarum polycephalum constructs a form of spatial memory by avoiding areas it has previously explored.” http://www.pnas.org/content/109/43/17490.full View in LinkedIn

DECEPTIVE SIMPLICITY. “It came as some surprise when researchers discovered that an evolutionarily simple slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, consisting nominally of a single cell, was able to compute a near optimal path through a maze.” https://ukacc.group.shef.ac.uk/proceedings/control2008/papers/p246.pdf View in LinkedIn

NEURAL PATHWAYS. “We uncover analogies between the slime mold and neurons, and demonstrate that the slime mold can play the roles of primitive mechanoreceptors, photoreceptors, and chemoreceptors; we also show how the Physarum neural pathways develop.” http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ARTL_a_00153 View in LinkedIn

GATHERING DATA. “A slime mold makes decisions about its propagation direction based on information fusion from thousands of spatially extended protoplasmic loci, similarly to a neuron collecting information from its dendritic tree. The analogy is distant yet inspiring.” http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ARTL_a_00153 View in LinkedIn