Past psychology research suggests that there is a strong relationship between difficult experiences during childhood and the ...

A new study has uncovered a direct link between somatic mutations and epigenetic modifications, challenging established views ...

Not all genes are active at all times. DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic mechanisms that cells use to control gene expression. This straightforward experiment demonstrated that it was ...

Alcohol is responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths per year in the United States, making it ...

In early embryogenesis, DNA is largely devoid of methylation (top left). Post implantation, de novo methylation begins (red circles), mediated primarily by DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase ...

Scientists unveil the androgen clock, a precise epigenetic tool to measure long-term androgen exposure and its role in aging ...

Dopamine, serotonin, and histamine carry messages between neurons. They can also influence circadian gene expression ...

A little-known mouse protein disrupts cancer-causing chemical changes to genes associated with human colorectal cancer cells ...

Researchers from Peking University have unveiled a groundbreaking approach to DNA data storage, which leverages enzymatic methylation to store data densely and efficiently. This new method, named "epi ...

A research team led by Prof. Qin Guozheng from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unveiled a ...

Childhood stress may leave lasting marks on sperm, altering epigenetic profiles and potentially influencing brain development ...

Childhood stress can impact the epigenetic profile of sperm. These results may also have practical implications for future ...