Following the surprising discovery that our genetic blueprint is much simpler than expected, we’ve rapidly learned that we ...

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

The field of cancer epigenetics examines how heritable changes in gene regulation - independent of DNA sequence - impact ...

Back in 1942, the term epigenetics was introduced by Conrad Waddington to present a picture of cell development, one in which cells descended a hillside and followed diverging valley paths before ...

Fathers may carry traces of their childhood trauma in their sperm cells, a new study finds. The new research, published Jan. 3 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, looked at the "epigenetics" of the ...

Maternal prenatal stress related to natural and human-made disasters can lead to epigenetic modifications in offspring, ...

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Monash University report that they have developed a new method to measure biological aging in individual cell types. The new tool offers a more ...

Children with a family history of type 1 diabetes (T1D) have an increased risk of developing the disease. However, children born to mothers with T1D are less likely to develop the disease than those ...