Our scientific soapbox at EpiGenie is mighty. Hear what our guest epigenetics experts have on their mind about their field of study or the scientific field in general. Please note, the views expressed in our Commentaries are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position unless of course they are intelligent and well articulated, then we totally agree.

Maybe I am naive and ignorant but my experience comes from me being a young faculty member at Scripps where all of our money comes from NIH funding.  We have set funding and we’re not a University and we’re not teaching we are doing science.  This brings up an interesting point where you see a paradigm, mostly played out in the universities....Read More

Throughout the early portion of his scientific career, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck spent his hours fighting to keep his underpaid job, only to later become a full-time professor at the National Museum of Natural History covering the least desirable (at the time) research area, insects and worms. Despite knowing little about insects and worms.......Read More

It sounds like a boxing match but is quite the contrary. It is really the perfect synergy between the use of a tool to define a natural biological process and the use of a natural biological process to define a tool. How many cases can you point to in lab where the tools you are using are naturally interfacing with a biological pathway? Read on....