... 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...

... This essay examines the implications of current data production and dissemination regimes for credit attribution and reward systems associated with authorship in genomic science. Paying attention to these scientific practices sheds light on one of the new and exciting aspects of postgenomic...

... This essay explores the application of postgenomic science to matters of health justice. Analyzing public health policies, genome project records, interviews with project leaders and leading genetic epidemiologists, and news coverage of four international projects, the essay illuminates the ways...

... A hallmark of the postgenomic era is an imperative that scientists elucidate the role of the environment in shaping the processes and outcomes of gene action. This paper examines the efforts of scientists in two very different epistemological traditions to meet this challenge. Exposomics...

... 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...

... Postgenomics cannot be adequately conceptualized as a simple “break” or “transition” from one era to the next. Nor can it be characterized as a straightforward continuation of genetics or genomics. Rather, the essays in this volume collectively begin to theorize postgenomics in terms...

... of the defining features of postgenomics. Network science emerged in the 1990s in response to the proliferation of computer networks and especially the World Wide Web. Applied to biology, network science enables particular kinds of reasoning and particular understandings of biological objects. Networks draw...

... Taking the case of behavior genetics, this essay traces efforts to cope with scientific disappointments and the conflicts among scientists spurred by postgenomics. Behavior genetics has long anticipated the advent of molecular genetics and postgenomics as deliverance from its endemic affliction...

... This essay re-reads key events in genomic and postgenomic history in terms of affect, exploring a dimension of the emergence of postgenomics often neglected in the epistemological, technological, or organizational approaches used by historians as indices of change. The essay contends...

... affect postgenomics surprise subjectivity ...

... During the postgenomic era, genomes have become a shared platform for biological research across many fields. Postgenomics is reshaping debates over genetic determinism, reductionism, the role of the social and the environmental in human health and disease, and even the notion of the genome...

... A distinctive individual human genome is supposed to be found in every cell of the individual to whom it pertains. This essay describes a number of postgenomic lines of research that are increasingly complicating this picture. Contemporary science is beginning to understand multicellular...