Researchers have mapped the genetic switches that will help open up ways to unlock the secrets of cancer and other diseases. These genetic switches are methylation points, numbering over two million in plant genome, whose exact location has been mapped for the first time by researchers of the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Salk Institute in California. Researchers focused on unlocking their secret code called epigenetics. Until recently scientists did not have a clear picture how many methylation points a biological system had or the tools to find them all.

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