... Epigenetics, the study of how experiences, environments, and exposures alter gene expression, is a vibrant new area of postgenomic life sciences research. Epigenetics research situates the maternal body as a central site of epigenetic programming and transmission, and as a significant locus of...

... Poised at a critical turning point in the history of genetics, postgenomic research in epigenetics and genomic plasticity obliges us to critically reexamine many of our most basic concepts. This essay argues that genomic research supports a radical transformation in our understanding of the...

... more limited significance than was once thought. This perspective is crucial to understanding the growing importance for medicine of research in epigenetics, metagenomics, and other paradigmatically “postgenomic” areas of science. ...

... between the cultural figures of the hungry, lower-caste rural person and the overfed middle-class urbanite. This subject became known in biomedical discourses and epigenetic science as “the thin-fat Indian”: the body that absorbs prosperity into its very constitution, even as that constitution...

... temporality of the relationship between organisms and their habitats. The chapter explains how the permeability of germ cell membranes entails that a creature’s response to a habitat in one generation can shape the development and growth of offspring in subsequent generations via epigenetic markers. The...