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6:58grant funding through the NHS and it it what is I think this is very timely because there's been a lot of chatter in social media around you know this idea of generational trauma >> as sort of a a non-scientific term and this the idea that there is uh an impact on outcomes that are related to these concepts of like generational trauma and we're I think this is going to start to brush up against some of these social conversations that have been happening. Uh and I'm I'm super curious to understand you know particularly your point about why now are we able to start to get a better idea of what's going on on the epigenetic layer. >> Yes, that that part is really really cool. the techn the biotechnology there
7:40is really really cool and what you're alluding to is the fact that you know trauma is something that is not going to affect the genetic layer but it is going to affect the epigenetic layer because the epigenetic layer is the one that is dynamic and changes throughout the life of an organism. We mo by and large have the DNA that we were born with. Okay, unless you know if you look at tumors, there's a lot of mutations there and tumor cells have very different DNA compared to um normal benign cells, right? But epigenetically, the reason why this cell is a skin cell and this cell is an eye cell and the the cells inside my brain are neurons, that
8:20has to do with epigenetics, right? because the cell is making a choice what part of the gene to read out from and what part to to ignore. That's the software level that I'm talking about. So, it's it's extremely important for us to understand, right? So, we're going to start as always on this podcast, guys. I'm uh I might be a little rusty. It's been 2 months of no, as I said, barely any sleep. So, just bear with me if I'm a little slow. But, we're going to start as always with the history. Okay? We're going to go back. The story of genetics probably begins in the um 160 years ago improbably in a monastery. Okay. Gregor