A new study in mice demonstrates a history of obesity caused by a high-fat diet produces changes in innate immunity that can promote inflammatory disease. If the findings translate to humans, the ...

Epigenetics, the study of changes in gene function that do not involve alterations to the DNA sequence, plays a pivotal role in understanding the complex interplay between genetics and the environment ...

Preface: The Jurassic Park of Nevada -- Introduction: Looking back -- From God to science -- Lamarck to Darwin -- From Darwin to the new (modern) synthesis -- Epigenetics and the newer synthesis -- ...

A research team has discovered that cancer, one of the leading causes of death worldwide, can be caused entirely by epigenetic changes, in other words, changes that contribute to how gene expression ...

Epigenetics refer to DNA modifications that may affect phenotype but don’t alter the nucleotide sequence itself. Epigenetic changes can often be passed down generations, hence the Greek prefix “epi”, ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Scientists have uncovered a new way that cells control their genes — and it may rewrite our understanding of "epigenetics." Epigenetics is a form of DNA modification that doesn't affect the DNA ...

Chromatin is one of the earliest identified targets for cancer therapeutics. Drug development aimed at altering chromatin can be traced to the differentiating agents of the 1970s and their link to DNA ...

Unusual changes to your DNA activity can lead to cancer. Researchers are using this knowledge to create treatments that can undo these alterations. While cells have specific jobs for various parts of ...