Typically, the information encoded in DNA allows organisms to develop, function, and pass traits across generations. Yet DNA ...

Schizophrenia is often known as a heritable disorder, but what some fail to realize is that the environment can play a major ...

Live Science spoke with Alika Maunakea, an Native Hawaiian epigeneticist, about how epigenetics underpins health disparities between Native Hawaiians and others in Hawaii.

insights from industryDr. Amy Johnson & Dr. Lewis FrancisBusiness Manager, Porvair SciencesAssociate Professor, Swansea University An interview from Dr. Amy Johnson, Business and Technical Product ...

Omar Abdel-Wahab is a physician-scientist who studies the role of epigenetics in blood cancers. If you’ve ever known a set of identical twins, you might have been struck by what they didn’t have in ...

Genetics can explain a black or white cat in a litter, but what about a stripey cat? Enter epigenetics. Taylor Bennett The word epigenetics means things imposed “on top of genetics”. But what sort of ...

Biology Assistant Professor Teresa Lee had received a five-year, $1.1 million CAREER grant from the National Science ...

Isn't our genetic legacy hardwired? From Mendel and Darwin in the 19th century to Watson and Crick in the 20th, scientists have shown that chromosomes passed from parent to child form a genetic ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy (LIT) describe a new type of regulation of immune cells by so-called "jumping genes." The immune system defends the body against invading ...

We often hear the phrase, "You are what you eat." But what if it also applied to your children—even before they're born? Research from the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) ...

Scientists have found a way to manipulate gene expression using the gene editing tool CRISPR, and they have shown that it is possible to control one aspect of the inflammatory response this way. This ...

FOXO Technologies Inc. (OTC: FOXO) (the “Company”) and LongevityFP Technologies, LLC. (“LFP”) today jointly announced a strategic partnership to commercialize the Company’s pioneering epigenetics ...