How often do you see an editor of a scientific journal complain that a field is overhyped?   Well, you can see it this week in Current Biology, where Florian Maderspacher, the senior reviews editor, takes out after the current penchant of  journalists to see epigenetics as the Great Missing Piece of Biology—a field that will … Continue reading Epigenetics: the light and the way?

Last week I highlighted a piece on epigenetics by Florian Maderspacher, an editor at Current Biology.  (For this post I’ll define “epigenetics” as “inheritance that transcends generations but is not based on changes in DNA sequence”.) Florian decried all the current hype about epigenetics—that is, the idea that this phenomenon will revolutionize our view of … Continue reading Epigenetics kerfuffle