Are You What Your Mother Ate?
Randy Jirtle and Rob Waterland’s Agouti Mouse Study has been called one of the most important study’s of the 21st century, not only for its significance for our understanding of the relationship between our genetic Nature and environmental Nurture but, most importantly, for our understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms that change gene expression in both […]
Exploring the Nurture in Our Nature?
The Nature-Nurture debate in both sociology and psychology at a-level has, historically, generally been framed in terms of an either / or approach to understanding the relationship between genes and social / environmental influences. In short, either our behaviour is fundamentally a product of our genetic inheritance (biological determinism) or it is a product of […]
Beyond Genetics
Association for the Teaching of Psychology review of our new film by Deb Gajic How epigenetics is changing our understanding of the Nature / Nurture debate For those of you that attended Dr. Taylor’s workshop or Dr. Guy Sutton’s keynote lecture during the ATP Annual Conference at the University of Sussex, the topic of epigenetics […]
Beyond Genetics
“Nature or Nurture?” is a long-running debate in psychology, one heavily-influenced by developments in genetics and a rise in the popular belief that “dna is destiny”: the idea human behaviour is broadly is determined by a “good” or a “bad” roll of the genetic dice. This 3-part film, featuring contributions from Dr Nessa Carey and […]
Beyond Genetics 4: Histone Modification
Taken from our forthcoming (August 2016) Psychology film “Beyond Genetics” this simple animation illustrates histone modification through both tight and loose DNA binding.
Beyond Genetics 3: DNA Methylation
This short animation, taken from the second part of the forthcoming “Beyond Genetics” film, “Turn Me On / Turn Me Off” provides a simple visual representation of DNA Methylation.
Beyond Genetics 1: DNA and Proteins
Our latest (August 2016) 3-part film “Beyond Genetics” shows how developments in the field of epigenetics are shedding new light on the “nature – nurture” debate and this simple animation, taken from the first part of the film “All in the Genes?” illustrates the relationship between DNA, proteins and genetic transmission.
Epigenetics
Short animation, taken from our forthcoming “Beyond Genetics” film featuring Guy Sutton and Nessa Carey, that shows the relationship between histones, dna and epigenetic marks.
Weekly Digest
All the links that caught our eye this past week in one handy post… Sociology Education Methods in Context Mark Scheme I’ve seen the future and it doesn’t look good: “I Teach At A For-Profit College: 5 Ridiculous Realities” Crime Manchester’s Heroin Haters – Vigilante violence? Revealed: London’s new violent crime hotspots Chief Constable confirms […]