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

Parents pass genes along to their offspring which equip them for their future life. In recent years, research has shown that the reality is much more complex and that parents endow much more than just ...

Since its origin in 1942, the term 'epigenetics' has been repeatedly defined and redefined. There's always been hype around the field, but what actually is epigenetics and how much does it influence ...

Epigenetics is the science of how your lifestyle, environment, and even emotions can alter your gene activity without ...

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A few years ago, David Crews decided to put his laboratory rats at the University of Texas, Austin under an inordinate amount of stress. Beyond testing what might happen to minds and bodies under ...

A discussion of nature versus nurture wouldn’t be complete without an explanation of epigenetics. Tossed into the debate as the answer we’ve all been waiting for, epigenetics simply adds one more ...

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Epigenetics is the study of the impact of human lifestyle and environmental factors on gene expression patterns. Epigenetic changes are dynamic and reversible and inherited somatically. These changes ...

Last Friday, an FDA advisory panel voted unanimously against recommending the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab. Based on evidence from two clinical trials, they found that the data did not show that the ...

Epigenetics is like a symphony conductor, who with just a gesture of the baton, conveys the message to quiet the strings while turning up the horns. The symphony as a whole remains intact, but the ...

Merlin Crossley receives funding from the University of New South Wales, the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. The word epigenetics means things imposed ...