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Science 35 min

Why Your DNA Is Not Your Destiny

A chemical tag invisible under most microscopes is rewriting the rules of inheritance

Identical twins. Same genes. Different diseases, different personalities, different lives. From a wartime famine still marking blood sixty years later to mice transformed by a vitamin, epigenetics reveals that your body is a document life edits — and the edits can be inherited by people who never lived through what caused them.

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