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Deciphering the human genome:

how Recreational Music Making Study Gives New Meaning to “Gene Expression”

Study on human genomes is music to the ears of anyone wishing to live with good health.

Can playing a musical instrument in any context — novice to virtuoso, rattle to Stradavarius —change our DNA? . . .

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