Feinberg in Nature Biotechnology Journal I discovered that in 2014, five hundred years would have passed since Andreas van Wesel, known as Vesalius, was the first to precisely study human anatomy. This study played a revolutionary role in medical education. The same pioneering effect brought epigenetics to the world. And all the discoveries in the study of epigenomics on a genome-wide scale have opened up a new understanding of human DNA and its possibility to cure the deadliest diseases. The article also discusses that epigenomics has helped reveal that previously named ß-globin clusters regulate gene expression. Epigenomics has provided the genome with the kind of functional anatomy that Vesalius provided general anatomy five centuries ago. AP Feinberg says epigenomics is transforming the search for the genetic causes of common human diseases. With a better understanding of epigenomics and a growing number of studies in that field, we have a better chance of extending our lives