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A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer's patients is epigenetically altered.

From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2024

Trees possess memory, Wohlleben tells us, and can pass those memories on epigenetically to their offspring.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2021

We don’t have to micromanage the repair, the Harvard molecular biologist George Church observes: “If we think epigenetically, we can see that we can make the cells industriously do the repair themselves.”

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

This isn’t just a theory; it can be shown epigenetically.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2019

Blumenbach has already brought forward the existence of galls as an argument against preformation, holding them to be structures produced epigenetically, and, therefore, unrepresented by rudiments in the germ.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar