Why do some people develop CLL, other cancers or non communicable diseases while others don't? We know that each of our body cells comes from just one cell at conception and that it differentiates into all the different cell types, all sharing the same DNA we inherited from our parents. We are gradually beginning to understand how different parts of our DNA are activated and deactivated to create what is called the epigenome and that it is the epigenome that is behind the differentation into our different body cell lines and their susceptibility towards becoming cancerous.
Merlin Crossley, Dean of Science and Professor of Molecular Biology at UNSW Australia has written one of the most lucid explanations about this process and how we are gradually untangling how it all happens. I can highly recommend his article:
theconversation.com/beyond-...
Neil
Photo: I very much doubt that anyone will be able to identify what I've photographed on the fence post. Hint; while I put the object on the fence post to photograph, it does have a connection...
Yes, he is a farmer's son and used to cutting wood. But termites are very rare in the UK - he got to know termite damage while In Asia. 
Richter’s Transformation - updated
