A new study that tracked dogs' aging by reading tiny chemical tags on their DNA found that larger dogs aged more quickly.

A new review maps how common genetic variants, insertion/deletion polymorphisms, microRNAs, DNA methylation and histone ...

Researchers studying nearly 900 domestic dogs developed an epigenetic clock that predicted mortality and showed that ...

Few ideas in modern biology have captured the public imagination quite like epigenetics. The promise is seductive: chemical ...

Every cell in an organism contains the same DNA, which carries all the instructions needed for it to function. Yet cells do ...

A recent study investigated whether the body’s oxytocin system acts as a biological risk factor for Functional Neurological ...

We are more than the sum of our genes. Epigenetic mechanisms modulated by environmental cues such as diet, disease or lifestyle take a major role in regulating the DNA by switching genes on and off.

Epigenetics is the study of chemical reactions that influence gene expression, through activation or deactivation of genes at specific times and locations. These changes in gene expression do not ...

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 ...

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 ...