Heredity

Genetics and the Environment

There’s been a paradigm shift in the field of genetics. Instead of relying solely on DNA and inheritance, the field of epigenetics now demonstrates how environmental factors can also determine diseases in our future, and in our children and grandchildren’s future. Host Bruce Gellerman talks with epigeneticist Michael Skinner, a professor at Washington State University.

The World

New technology reveals genes to be a small piece of a larger hereditary puzzle

Environment