Dr. Dipak Sarkar, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, and Director of the Biomedical Division of the Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, at The State University of New Jersey, explains what epigenetics is and describes the impact of alcohol on epigenetics, including that alcohol-related changes can be passed for multiple generations and that treatments are being studied.
Recorded, edited, and captioned by Graeme Mason, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University.