When I was six my dad got down on our living room floor and placed a twelve-inch-wide string circle in the middle of the room. He filled the circle with a slew of shiny new marbles, then patiently showed me how to curl my index finger into the crook of my thumb and place the “shooter” marble in the pocket…
Imagine a scar turning back into living, thriving tissue. Or a cell originally meant to develop into a specific organ becoming capable of turning into any kind of organ. Sounds like science fiction. But these possibilities are closing in fast, thanks to the pathbreaking field of epigenetics. Epigenetics goes beyond the boundaries of what’s possible in changing the function and…
Clinical psychologist Francine Shapiro was taking a stroll in 1987 when she noticed a curious phenomenon: the movement of her eyes seemed to reduce negative feelings associated with traumatic memories in her past. Her subsequent investigation revealed that other people had similar responses based on their eye movements. Dr. Shapiro’s curiosity didn’t stop there. She went on to develop an…
