Epigenetics
Brain aging and dementia remain a mystery. This epigenetic model may help unravel it
People age at different rates, with some individuals developing both characteristics and diseases related to aging earlier in life than ...
‘Disease-cancelling technology’: New drugs may act more like noise-control headphones
Rather than focusing on the DNA and proteins involved in a disease, Immuneering focuses on disease-associated gene signaling and expression ...
High-yielding plants that survive temperature swings may be our next weapon against climate change
Sally Mackenzie spent her childhood summers walking through the vast fields of bright, red, ripe tomato crops: They grow best ...
Childhood trauma: The kids are not alright, and part of the explanation may be linked to epigenetics
The old adage about kids being resilient and able to bounce back from early traumas isn't necessarily borne out by ...
Epigenetics mystery: Can environment-induced changes be passed on?
Israeli researchers have discovered that laboratory worms transfer information about their parents’ physical environment through small RNA molecules that occur ...
Podcast: Rebel Cell: Cancer, evolution and the science of life
Geneticist Dr Kat Arney brings you exclusive excerpts from her new book Rebel Cell, exploring where cancer came from, where ...
Podcast: The surprising science of epigenetics—How a family of ‘Mickey Mouse mice’ overturned our understanding of heredity
Kat Arney takes a look at the world of epigenetics, finding out if more than DNA passes on to the ...
How old is that child? ‘Epigenetic clocks’ could help fight child labor, trafficking and improve age records on immigrant children
Epigenetic clocks are a new type of biological test currently capturing the attention of the scientific community, private companies and ...
Can we ‘program’ people through epigenetics to enjoy exercise?
Some people wake early every morning to run, bike, swim, or lift. For others, finding the motivation to work out ...
‘Elixir of life’: Can epigenetic reprogramming help us live longer and healthier?
[Juan Carlos] Izpisúa Belmonte can rejuvenate aging, dying animals. He can rewind time. But just as quickly as he blows ...
Video: What does it mean to ‘turn on’ a gene?
In the murky darkness, blue and green blobs are dancing. Sometimes they keep decorous distances from each other, but other ...
Epigenetics could alter the way we breed crops for drought and climate change
New techniques allow researchers to change the way crops behave and handle adverse conditions--without actually altering the plants' underlying DNA ...
Can frequent exercise epigenetically slow the aging process?
Research under way in Melbourne is showing that exercise can, literally, make your body younger. … [Researcher Sarah] Voisin tells ...
New techniques could transform epigenetics research, ameliorating diseases
Epigenetics, the study of mechanisms by which genes are turned on or off without altering their genetic code or DNA ...
How a father’s stresses alter sperm and can ‘leave his children scarred’
A stressed-out and traumatized father can leave scars in his children. New research suggests this happens because sperm “learn” paternal ...
Epigenetic clues could assist crime investigations by revealing age range, lifestyle habits of suspects
[The] field of forensic epigenetics [uses] the markers that sit on top of DNA and modify it’s expression, rather than the ...
How can seemingly-unique animals be genetically the same?
More and more, biologists are discovering that organisms thought to be different species are, in fact, but one. A recent ...
Relationship between genes and obesity could be altered by what we eat
A correlation between obesity and genetics has been found to be modified by diet, according to a scientific paper in ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why the controversial field of epigenetics is ‘so alluring’
I think of stories I’ve been told about my grandmother in 1945 Japan. … It feels plausible, and poetic, to ...
Is epigenetics the ‘secret superpower’ of invasive species?
Due to the small numbers that are introduced, invasive species experience a genetic bottleneck that results in low levels of ...
Hatchery-raised vs wild-born coho salmon: Containment sites may alter epigenome, hurting survival in the wild
[Biologist Louis Bernatchez of Quebec’s Laval University] and his colleagues set out to search for evidence of a different kind of hatchery adaptation, ...
Adding 24 new mutations to breast cancer risk calculations
Twenty-four previously unknown mutations that raise a woman's risk of developing breast cancer have been identified by scientists. The 'ground-breaking' findings [February ...
Epigenetics of exercise: Our muscles appear to have ‘molecular memory’
Our muscles may actually possess a molecular memory in the form of epigenetic marks on our DNA. According to a ...
Epigenetics and doping: Steroids may have long-lasting performance enhancing effects
Editor's note: E. Paul Zehr is a professor of neuroscience and kinesiology at the University of Victoria in Canada [Olympic ...
The quest for youth, and what our genes have to say about it
Why do some people seem to age faster than others? The answer may lie in our epigenetics ...
Some cases of autism may have epigenetic origins
Scientists have discovered a swathe of biochemical regions that look to be deeply involved with the risk factors behind autism spectrum ...
‘Supersimilarity’: Identical twins are epigenetic twins as well
The sometimes-preternatural similarity of identical twins is more profound than previously thought. Identical twins, known to science as “monozygotic”, may ...