Dierssen: "If there is something that critically determines our biological destiny, it is our behavior"



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## Dierssen: "If there is something that critically determines our biological destiny, it is our behavior"

20/12/2013 |
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"If there is something that critically determines our biological destiny, it is our behavior", stated Mara Dierssen, researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, ​​in the last lecture of the series of conferences organized by the Faculty of Health Sciences, entitled "We are (not only) DNA".

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