Epigenetics
Disease treatment, tissue regeneration may be bolstered by precise identification of stem cells
Scientists at Rutgers and other universities have created a new way to identify the state and fate of stem cells ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Engineering better humans? Fearmongering in Canada? Fake autism treatments?
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented by GLP ...
20 percent of cancer patients resistant to chemotherapy — tweaking gene expression could help
Approximately 20 percent of all cancers have a mutation that makes them incredibly resistant to chemotherapy – a gene called KRAS. KRAS-mutant ...
Cholesterol and heart disease risk could be lowered with a single injection
A one-off injection could one day lower your cholesterol levels for the rest of your life. People born with natural ...
Next big thing in the world of crime solving: Epigenetics?
[A]dvances in epigenetics – the study of reversible chemical modifications to chromosomes that play a role in determining which genes ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Chemo affects sperm? Cancer causes. Younger looking skin?
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented by GLP ...
Women may be buffered from traumatic stress by high estrogen levels
Whether a woman’s estrogen level is high or low could determine if she may be susceptible to developing post-traumatic stress ...
Battle over America’s waistline: How obesity affects having children and their health
On one side are social forces behind a “fat acceptance” movement seeking to normalize obesity or at least reduce discrimination ...
Rett syndrome, other diseases could be treated by waking silenced genes
Rett syndrome...is a neurological developmental disorder and is classified as a particularly extreme form of autism. But, unlike most forms of ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: The dangers of romance?
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented by GLP ...
Leading plant scientist says he’s skipping Science March on Washington: Here’s why
[Editor's note: Kevin Folta, a molecular biologist and chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, offers ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Can changes acquired during an organism’s life be passed on?
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented ...
Spread of pancreatic cancer fueled by epigenetic changes
[Editor's note: Excerpts are from an interview with Andrew Feinberg of Johns Hopkins, whose research shows how epigenetics affects the spread of ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Alzheimer’s drug moves closer to patients
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented ...
Cultural, social experiences may be reflected in epigenetic marks
A UC San Francisco-led study has identified signatures of ethnicity in the genome that appear to reflect an ethnic group's ...
Obesity changes gene activity which may predict diabetes risk study says
In what is being called the biggest study yet on the effect of body mass index (BMI) on DNA, researchers ...
What genetics reveals about traditional Chinese medicine
Can Chinese medicine impact the human genome, and deliver on its promises? A variety of individual responses to these therapies ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Top stories from 2016
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented ...
Do parents pass down trauma to their children?
When the children of Holocaust survivors came of age in the 1970s, psychologists realized that they felt the trauma of ...
Genetic engineering successfully reverses aging in mice, rejuvenating organs
At the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., scientists are trying to get time to run backward. Biological time, that ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Watch how epigenetic changes cause cancer
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Should theory of evolution expand to include epigenetics?
Epigenetics around the web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics. This ...
Cancer can emerge from changes to epigenome, not just gene mutations
Doctors’ ruling perspective on cancer has been that it is caused by a series of genetic changes. However, a team ...
What you eat influences which genes your gut microbes switch on and off
New research provides further evidence of the important role that gut microbes play in health - by revealing they alter ...
Epigenetics around the web: Epigenetics initiative IHEC releases 41 studies in one day; your office has a microbiome
Epigenetics around the web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics. This ...
What role do epigenetic changes play in development of autism?
What causes autism? The weight of scientific evidence implicates several genes, but genetics doesn't explain the whole story. Environmental factors ...
Despite distrust of genetics, indigenous people express enthusiasm for epigenetics
For the last two decades, Indigenous peoples have consistently resisted genetics on local, national and international scales. Awareness of genetics ...