Outcry at scale of inheritance project

jerry submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) handed out the first payments in a multi-million-dollar project to explore epigenomics last month. But some researchers are voicing concerns about the scientific and economic justification for this latest "big biology" venture.

Epigenetics is the study of usually-inherited factors that are not directly coded in the genes. The biggest objection to this massive project seems to be the belief that it is a waste of money that could be going to other strapped labs

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