Our mission is to provide the valuable information about BWS from the initial diagnosis throughout the child’s life. WHO WE ARE Beckwith-Wiedemann Children’s Foundation Int’l (BWCFI) has been educating and assisting families diagnosed with BWS since 1998. Our mission is to provide the correct information about BWS –at the initial diagnosis and throughout the child’s life. BWCFI’s primary purpose is to provide educational and reference resources for families and individuals diagnosed with BWS. However
This video opens by explaining a new way of thinking about inheritance. This is the discovery of epigenetics which could soon affect every aspect of our lives. The main idea of epigenetics is that genes have a memory. Meaning that the lives of your grandparents can directly affect you, decades later, even if you’ve never experienced these things yourself. Things such as the air they breathed, food they ate, even the things they saw could cause these effects. According to the book before this discovery
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a French naturalist who lived from 1744 to 1829, set forth in his Philosophie Zoologique the idea that an organism’s form and inheritance are influenced by its circumstances (Philosophie Zoologique 1809). Lamarck’s theory of evolution, also known as Lamarckism, proposed [Lamarck’s theory of evolution, also known as Lamarckism, was based on the principle that an organism could pass acquired characteristics onto its offspring. (Futuyama 2013; Campbell and Reece 2005; Stansfield