All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

Psychology Assistant Professor Sarah Merrill studies the chemical tags that trauma and other adverse experiences can leave on ...

For years, scientists have been fascinated with how DNA mutations impart phenotypic changes. However, epigeneticists including Andrew Pospisilik think mutations are responsible for only a portion of ...

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression that do not involve alterations to the underlying DNA sequence. These changes can significantly impact gene activity and cellular ...

The earliest studies of genetic inheritance were very straightforward - Gregor Mendel documented the passage of certain easily observable traits as they passed down through generations of pea plants.

To understand how our habits influence our genes —and more specifically, how what we eat activates genes that promote cell ...

Researchers published a dataset covering thousands of methylated sites from hundreds of cancer-derived cultured cells, covering many leukemias, lymphomas and myelomas, from humans and mice. With this ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigate the relationship between the gut microbiome, physical fitness, and epigenetic aging in physically fit individuals.