Written by: Carly Blaire
Edited by: Charukesi Sivakumar
This piece was written in collaboration with the 2025 ComSciCon-MI Write-A-Thon.
Almost every cell in the human body contains around two meters (or 6.5 feet) of DNA, encoding the complete instructions for all of your body’s functions. Hair, stomach, brain, skin; each part so vastly different, but all stemming from the same base instructions. So what stops a skin cell from producing stomach acid, or the brain from producing hair? The answer lies in epigenetics.
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