Live Science spoke with Alika Maunakea, an Native Hawaiian epigeneticist, about how epigenetics underpins health disparities ...

Omar Abdel-Wahab is a physician-scientist who studies the role of epigenetics in blood cancers. If you’ve ever known a set of identical twins, you might have been struck by what they didn’t have in ...

The science of epigenetics shows that people who struggle with depression may actually have molecular changes throughout their bodies — that it can’t be wished away any more than you can will yourself ...

Genetics can explain a black or white cat in a litter, but what about a stripey cat? Enter epigenetics. Taylor Bennett The word epigenetics means things imposed “on top of genetics”. But what sort of ...

Scientists have found a way to manipulate gene expression using the gene editing tool CRISPR, and they have shown that it is possible to control one aspect of the inflammatory response this way. This ...

Clinical and experimental studies suggest that early life experiences, perhaps spanning multiple generations, affect lifelong risk of metabolic dysfunction through epigenetic mechanisms. Data ...

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 ...

Physician-scientist Omar Abdel-Wahab explains epigenetics, a growing field based on the study of genetic changes that are not part of the DNA code, and how it relates to cancer. Genetic inheritance is ...

Isn't our genetic legacy hardwired? From Mendel and Darwin in the 19th century to Watson and Crick in the 20th, scientists have shown that chromosomes passed from parent to child form a genetic ...

Among genetically identical "agouti viable yellow" (A vy) mice, some are brown and lean while others are yellow and obese. These differences are due to epigenetics, a system of molecular tags—such as ...

This high emotional toll can be explained by pre-existing poverty, unemployment, and inequality, and also by the relentless recurrence of storms. Samar and Leyte are hit by around 15 typhoons every ...

Epigenetics is an emerging field of scientific research exploring the study of gene expression changes that occur without alterations to the DNA sequence itself. Image Credit: Juan ...