#epigenetic

[anarkissm]

blackwatch commander gabriel reyes is a fixture in the dark. death-quiet. patient. like the vacuum of space. tactical gloves noiselessly thumbing through pages and pages of data, manila folders and research papers and chicken-scratch penmanship spilling over their desk, haphazardly compiled together as fodder for the paper-shredder set at the center of the small laboratory like a foreign obstruction.

SEP-augmented senses pick up the doctor’s footsteps; long, halting strides that strike across the linoleum tiles. gabriel leans back against the wall behind him, biceps straining inside his sleeves as he folds his arms loosely over his chest. watches the steel doors slide apart like puzzle pieces. watches o’deorain’s lanky figure drenched in the corridor’s lights, a person-shaped hole in the brightness.

"moira o'deorain. brilliant geneticist. overwatch reject,” a smooth, unnervingly friendly voice addresses them. uninterested in delaying the inevitable. “not very popular with the scientific community, are you? but that's good. makes this easy for me. and for you. but first, you're gonna have to come with me."

@epigenetic​ says: “I don’t even know you. What do you mean, I ‘have’ to go with you?”

"isn't it obvious already?" gabriel unfolds his arms. bends forward. sets the flat of his palms over the desk’s messy surface. he smiles, closed-mouthed, ironic.

"i'm your new best friend."

#epigenetic #SCRIPT. #REYES ，GABRIEL. #get in the helipad loser we're goin to commit government-sanctioned crimes B)

[1introvertedsage]

I feel it. Changes at the epigenetic level. It's like - an internal machine with parts that move in and out of place. Shift, rotate, drop, some spin out of control and haven't stopped. It's more than alot. But it's all I've got.

Heart strings are real And they can be used as chaps. Giving the most painful back slaps. Or they can be braided And swung around like a hammock To support and soothe the heart.

Gone for a ride but here to subside More than a runaway bride. It was just pride. Who I Am can no longer be denied. And I don't want to fucking hide. All these tears I've cried. While they all kept up the lie And tried To destroy who I was inside.

But now it's time to pick a side. And I choose mine. It's about damn time. Like a well oiled machine, I'll shine. Just needed to free my mind. Leave it all behind. Forgiveness has been harder than I thought To find. But the help I get, Must be Divine. Letting me clear the line. Of all the bullshit and trauma That stained me like wine. Said I'd be fine. And more Love they applied. Even got a few more Spirit Guides. That's what really helps in my life. People are so...mmh But nature just is. It can't be denied, It doesn't need to lie. Is that such a bad way to live? If so tell me why?

~Ruby L.S.~

#Deep Feeling #poetry #writing #Substack #poetic #feelings #sense #sense making #sensitive #listen #subtle #observation #sensation #epigenetic #feel #touch #learning #introvert poetry #1introvertedsage #Ruby L.S. poetry #Ruby L.S. speaks #lha #intsa original #Divine #Love #Spirit Guides #introvert #just be #Intsa Allegories

[ubuntu-village]

Exploring the Lifelong Impact of Trauma on Our DNA

Trauma is a complex subject that can have far-reaching and devastating effects on an individual's life.

Trauma is an unfortunate reality for many people, and its effects can last for generations. Recent research has shown that our genetic makeup may be affected by trauma in ways that go beyond mutations to the genetic code. This phenomenon, known as epigenetic inheritance, can be caused by events that happen in a person’s lifetime and are passed down to future generations. In this blog post, we…

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#DNA #epigenetic #trauma

[cytgen]

#NAC6D #promoter #methylation #CpG #Wheat #epigenetic #DNAmethyltransferases #epialleles

[junkr4tz]

\        ➍          〘 ᴹᴼᴵᴿᴬ 〙          @epigenetic​

 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀"oi, ⠀ ⠀i'm ⠀ ⠀no ⠀ ⠀lab ⠀ ⠀rat ⠀ ⠀of ⠀ ⠀yours!" ⠀ ⠀he ⠀ ⠀should've ⠀ ⠀guessed ⠀ ⠀that ⠀ ⠀a ⠀ ⠀hoity-toity ⠀ ⠀scientist ⠀ ⠀such ⠀ ⠀as ⠀ ⠀moira ⠀ ⠀wouldn't ⠀ ⠀find ⠀ ⠀an ⠀ ⠀interest ⠀ ⠀in ⠀ ⠀being ⠀ ⠀lab ⠀ ⠀partners. ⠀ ⠀he's ⠀ ⠀only ⠀ ⠀got ⠀ ⠀one ⠀ ⠀partner, ⠀ ⠀and ⠀ ⠀that's ⠀ ⠀his ⠀ ⠀partner ⠀ ⠀in ⠀ ⠀crime. ⠀ ⠀"'m ⠀ ⠀a ⠀ ⠀junkrat."

#junkrat vc: cant have shit in oasis #WRITING. #epigenetic

[thesocialpsychic]

Special Guest Julian B. Hayes II, Executive Health Consultant, Epigenetic Atelier, Author, & Published in Entrepreneur, Inc. + Many Others

#atelier #author #consultant #epigenetic #executive #fitness #hayes #health #host #julian #nutrition #podcaster #psychic #published #spirituality

[magnetothemagnificent]

I've seen people claim "trauma changes your DNA!" or "HRT changes your DNA" (said by trans folks trying to make a point? I guess?) But...no. Sorry. That's not true.

What you're referring to is epigenetics, and it doesn't change your DNA. It just influences which genes are turned on or off, or how certain genes are expressed. Your DNA is your genetic code- epigenetics doesn't change the code, merely how it is interpreted.

For example: You could have a gene that when turned on does one thing, but you were born with it turned off. Epigenetics comes in and turns it on. Doesn't change the gene itself nor your DNA. Just how it's expressed. The gene is still the same string of base pairs, it hasn't changed.

Please stop spreading scientific and medical misinformation.

#epigenetics #genetics #anthropology #biology #human biology

[science-sculpt]

Epigenetics: A Journey Through Inheritance Beyond Genes

For centuries, scientists have been fascinated by the mysteries of heredity and how traits are passed down from generation to generation. DNA, the molecule that stores our genetic code, was once thought to be the sole determinant of our characteristics. However, a new frontier in biology, revealing a captivating layer of complexity beyond the DNA sequence itself: Epigenetics.

What is Epigenetics?

The term "epigenetics" was first coined in the 1940s by British biologist Conrad Waddington, but it wasn't until the late 20th century that its significance truly blossomed. Epigenetics, literally meaning "above genetics," refers to the study of heritable changes in gene expression that occur without alterations to the DNA sequence itself. Imagine DNA as the musical score, but epigenetics are the conductor and musicians who determine how the music is played. Through chemical modifications and adjustments to the proteins around DNA, epigenetics dictates which genes are turned on or off, influencing how cells function and ultimately shaping our health, development, and even behavior. Think of your DNA as the hardware: it contains the basic instructions for building and running your body. But epigenetics acts like the software, fine-tuning those instructions and determining which genes get turned on or off at specific times and in specific cells. These modifications, like chemical tags or changes in the packaging of DNA, don't alter the underlying code itself, but they can have a profound impact on how it's read and interpreted.

The Key Players:

DNA methylation: This process involves adding a methyl group to DNA, essentially silencing the gene it's attached to. Imagine it like putting a dimmer switch on a light bulb.

Histone modifications: Histones are proteins that package DNA, and changes in their structure can make genes more or less accessible to the cellular machinery needed for expression. Think of it like adjusting the curtains around a window - open wide for full light, slightly closed for filtered light.

Non-coding RNAs: These are molecules that don't code for proteins but can regulate gene expression in various ways. They're like the backstage crew in a play, ensuring everything runs smoothly.

The Power of Epigenetic Regulation

Epigenetic regulation plays a crucial role in various biological processes, including:

Development: During embryonic development, different cell types emerge from the same DNA blueprint by activating or silencing specific gene sets through epigenetic modifications.

Cellular differentiation: Specialized cells like muscle or nerve cells have unique functions due to differences in their active genes, controlled by epigenetic mechanisms.

Learning and memory: Epigenetic changes in brain cells are thought to be essential for learning and forming memories.

Aging: As we age, our epigenome accumulates changes that can contribute to age-related decline and disease.

Environmental influences: Diet, exercise, stress, and exposure to toxins can leave epigenetic marks on our genes, potentially impacting our health and even the health of future generations.

Epigenetics reminds us that we are not simply products of our genes. Our environment, choices, and experiences leave their mark, shaping who we are and potentially influencing our children's health. This deeper understanding of ourselves opens doors for self-awareness, empowerment, and potentially reshaping our narratives – not just as individuals, but as a species with the potential to leave a healthier legacy for generations to come.

#life science #biology #science sculpt #molecular biology #biotechnology #epigenetics #daily dose of science #dna #genetic inheritance #genetics #decoding dna #genetic code #science #double helix

[kimchicuddles]

I've been thinking about this one, and the rippling effect of both trauma and healing. I hope my impact on the world causes more healing than trauma.

text reads:

Dad, we've been talking about family trauma and recovery recently, and you wrote me a song about the day I was born.

And it was a beautiful song but I still feel like we're strangers, like part of you never got to know me after that day.

I had a dream that we experience healing as nonlinear because we experience time as linear, but that healing actually happens in moments that ripple outward, spreading across what we call "time" in both directions and also across everything else.

And I woke up wondering if the me that needed you when you weren't there can hear you singing this song now, and be healed back then.

(here's the song): https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=589970479155000&set=a.304268177725233

#healing #trauma #epigenetic trauma #intergenerational healing #family #dad

[ataleofcrowns]

no X route spoilers just references, but i just wanna take a min to gush about it this chapter (i haven't read the other ones yet but i am absolutely going to) -

CAN I ROMANCE THE CROWN BC????? X is charming and smooth as hell obviously but the CROWN'S LINES DURING THE HIGH ROUTE ARE SO..... ma'am i am twirling my hair and giggling like a school girl omfg. im so used to the LIs being the suave ones... finally the MC is just as suave... like YEAH NO WONDER X FALLS IN LOVE WITH THEM WHEN THEY SAY SHIT LIKE "Then ** ****" GOOD FUCKING GOD CHERRY!!!

The surnames you can select for your Crown are all taken from historical Kurdish poets and it really shows because if given the chance the Crown is an insanely good smooth talker truly.

#blunt reserved cautious passive it don't matter!!! #epigenetic memory says you've got the Poetry in you babe #they drop similar lines in R's route too #A and D's are pending... 👀 #ask #anonymous

[mindblowingscience]

Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body's epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests. The epigenome functions like a set of switches, activating or deactivating genes to change how our bodies function. "We observed associations between cumulative marijuana use and multiple epigenetic markers across time," Lifang Hou, a preventative medical doctor and epidemiologist from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine explained in July 2023. Cannabis is a commonly used substance in the United States, with 49 percent of people trying it at least once, Hou and a team of US researchers report in their published paper. Some US states and other countries have made it legal, but we still don't fully understand its effects on our health. The researchers studied around 1,000 adults who had participated in a long-term previous study where they had been asked about their cannabis use over a 20-year period. Study participants provided blood samples on two occasions during that time, at the 15- and 20-year points. They were aged between 18 and 30 at baseline, or 'year 0'.

Continue Reading.

#Health #Science #Epigenetics #Cannabis #Weed

[mercycall]

♞ !!!!!!!!!!!!

Send  ♞ and I will generate a number from 1-35  for a sentence for my muse to say to yours. 

“Quick! Hold my hand.” 

#ayo??? #damn this thing knows whats up #ᴅɪᴅ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ ᴄᴀʟʟ ᴀ ᴅᴏᴄᴛᴏʀ? ( ic ) #ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ᴛᴡᴏ ᴀꜱᴘɪʀɪɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄᴀʟʟ ᴍᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏʀɴɪɴɢ. ( answered ) #epigenetic

[1introvertedsage]

#Deep Feeling #Substack #poetry #sense #substack writer #writing #my writing #lha #1introvertedsage #intsa original #creative writing #writers and poets #poetic #sense making #sensitive #change #epigenetic #internal #feeling #From the Mind of an Introvert

[astraltrickster]

#memes #media #gender #this meme brought to you by me trying to figure out whatever the fuck the deal is with the lyn twins in genshin impact #they're weirdly identical as many fictional m-f twins are #but why did lynette get the cat ears when lyney didn't? #there are a few possibilities #one is that it's related to epigenetic factors #i.e. they both have the genes for it but some factor caused them to only selectively activate in one of them #one is that it's an x-linked recessive trait such that they started as xx or xxx #and split such that lyney is xx heterozygous and lynette is x/ with the one x carrying it #another is that it's a y-linked trait and lyney is x/ and lynette is xy #or you know they could be fraternal with just ridiculously similar traits #or genetics just work differently in that universe #or any number of things really because biology is fucking weird #but shhhh i LIKE to think of the less common possibilities #especially when said less common possibilities mean they're both trans

[reasonsforhope]

“Can a plant remember?

This may sound more like a line from a poem than a scientific enquiry.

But new analysis suggests that plants can pass on climate adaptation tips to their offspring.

From devastating floods to rising temperatures, the climate crisis is changing natural habitats all over the world.

To survive, many plants have been forced to quickly adapt, new research published in the Trends in Plant Science journal indicates.

They then transmit these new traits on to their offspring, says Federico Martinelli, a plant geneticist at the University of Florence.

How do plants adapt to climate change and remember these adaptations?

...Plants don’t make memories in the same way that humans do, but they nonetheless remember. Rather than storing memories in brains (neural networks), they store them in sophisticated cellular and molecular signalling networks.Researchers call this a ‘somatic memory’, stored in the plant’s body.

“These mechanisms allow plants to recognise the occurrence of a previous environmental condition and to react more promptly in the presence of the same consequential condition,” says Martinelli.

For example, a plant can remember to delay flowering when warmer.

It will pass this trait down to its offspring through something researchers call ‘epigenetics.’

Unlike genetic changes, epigenetic changes do not change a DNA sequence. Instead, they can change how an organism reads a DNA sequence.

“Epigenetic modifications are inherited… thereby contributing to the long-term adaptation of plant species to climate change,” the paper’s authors write.

The research will help scientists understand how plant intelligence is battling climate change.” -via EuroNews, 11/23/22

#plants #plant biology #climate change #climate resilience #memory #environment #dna #epigenetics #evolution #good news #hope

[aikoiya]

LoZ - Inheritance of the Cycle

I tend to think that Link, Zelda, & Ganondorf are all reincarnating.

But not just reincarnating, but reincarnating through their own bloodlines.

And I recently learned about something that would give a decent explanation for why. At least for Link & Zelda.

Epigenetics.

See, epigenetics says that when an animal or person experiences stress as a result of something, their young will be more adapted to combating whatever caused that stress in the first place.

This happens even if that young is conceived long after the stress is gone.

So, logically speaking, this would mean that because (in my hc) the Triforce Trio are always the biological descendents of at least one of their predecessors, this new incarnation is biologically more prepared for their destiny. At least, Link & Zelda always are anyway.

Because this would mean that Link & Zelda are more ready to protect Hyrule in every subsequent reincarnation.

Even Wind Link is a descendant of a previous Link, just not Time Link. Rather, he's a descendant of Four Link if we concider his family's shield being identical to the sheild that Dot won for Four to be a possible indication of such.

I believe that the game said that it was passed down in their family "from the hero." However, I don't think it really ever specifies which hero.

Of course, because of this, almost all Links are also related to their Zeldas (at least, somewhere down the line) due to Sky & Sun getting hitched. After them is Four & Dot, Hyrule & his Zelda (he has both Dawn & Aurora, but I've zero idea who he's paired with), Wind & Tetra, Spirit & Phantasma (from Spirit Tracks), Warriors & Artemis, then Wild & Flora who I believe also all got married to each other.

Though, thankfully, almost each reincarnation is at least 100 years apart from their previous incarnation.

In fact, the only Links we know are related directly are Wind & Four, then Time & Twilight. We also know that Wind, Legend, & Hyrule aren't Time's direct descendants due to Wind being from the Adult Timeline (in which Time was sent back in time & thus left behind no children to take his place in the Adult one unless he did some "extracurricular quests") & Legend & Hyrule being from the Downfall Timeline (in which Time, presumably, died before having left behind a child; again, unless he got up to some "extracurricular questing").

Though, I very strongly hc that Wild is descended from Twilight & that Rusl is a descendant of Four.

Other than that? I only know that each Link is descended from either First or Sky & Sun in one way or another. Just not if they are descended from any other Link.

Zelda, though? We almost always know that each Zelda is descended from the previous Zelda. Except for Dawn, who is almost certainly descended from Aurora's brother.

However, OoT Ganondorf didn't get the option because I believe that he was the first.

Either way, Ganondorf almost never gets to provide his successors with this particular benefit due to either being sealed or getting killed in the only fight he has with Link. And due to the way that epigenetic works, any children he may have had before fighting Time wouldn't have gotten the benefits of the stress of fighting Time because, obviously, Ganondorf wouldn't have fought him yet.

Except for WW Ganon, who could've had a kid during the time before facing Wind, which would give HW & TotK the boon from WW Ganon having faced Time in battle.

It's also possible that so could TP Ganon if my theory that he escaped being captured in the Child Timeline before being arrested is true. Because in such an instance, there was most likely a 7 year war between Time returning to the Child Timeline & Ganondorf being executed because I believe that Time was the one who managed to defeat Ganon & retreive him for judgement in the end.

Though, the only real evidence of this is the fact that Young Ganondorf is portrayed with short hair, but the Ganondorf of TP has long enough hair to be able to put them in grandma rollers (I cannot unsee it & I will never let him live that down) & the fact that the Hero's Shade is shown wearing what appears to be heavy armor. Of course, these 2 details could very well be entirely unrelated, but I'm proposing that they aren't.

In such an instance, so long as he left behind an heir during the Era of Twilight, then it could still work.

It'd certainly explain how oddly powerful TotK Ganondorf becomes.

LoZ Linked Universe Masterlist

#loz #legend of zelda #link #zelda #ganondorf #epigenetics