For eternity, the biggest question in the mind of scientists is how a complex organism is formed with varied types of cells from a single fertilized egg. With the discovery of chromosomes and the establishment that DNA is the heredity material, scientists became curious to know how more than 100 cell types originate from a single DNA sequence in humans.
How well do you methylate? Where do these methyl groups come from? And why should you care? Well, Tro Nation, today’s article explores methylation in detail because, like Hansel from Zoolander, methylation is just “so hot right now."