Rewiring DNA circuitry could help treat asthma

Reprogramming asthma-promoting immune cells in mice diminishes airway damage and inflammation, and could potentially lead to new treatments for people ...
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Genetic weakness to cancer found to be reversible

The cause and effect relationships between these mechanisms are easier to delineate than the cellular action of either carcinogens or ...

Spinach ‘reduces epigenetic bowel cancer risk’

Scientists have shown that eating spinach could partially offset the risks of developing the cancers associated with a carcinogen in ...

The epigenetic jury is still out on C-sections

Laura Geggel | 
Unbeknownst to Bennett, giving his wife a C-section might have affected their daughter’s DNA, her children’s and her grandchildren’s. People ...
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Do liars really have different brains?

Alex Knapp | 
As biology has advanced, it’s become increasingly clear that the environment and yes, even choice, have a remarkable impact on ...

The epigenome of newborns and centenarians is different

What happens in our cells after one hundred years? What is the difference at the molecular level between a newborn ...

Nature, nurture or neither? Epigenetics is the new twist in an age-old argument

Jeremy Laurance | 
It is a shibboleth of family life – that every individual is the product of their genes and environment, the ...

First epigenome in Europe completed

A study led by Manel Esteller, director of the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute ...

Chemical exposure ups descendants’ sensitivity to stress

Animals whose ancestors were exposed to an environmental compound generations earlier have been found to developed an increased reaction to ...

Methylating your muscle DNA

There’s more to your DNA than your DNA. We are now becoming aware of the epigenome. While DNA controls you, ...
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Environmental influence on epigenetics

Brian McDonough | 
It is called epigenetics. This is where at the microscopic level the genes should function normal but something in the ...
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