How can this be? The answer lies in epigenomics. The human genome contains approximately 25,000 genes that encode all the proteins and other molecules that make up an individual. The epigenome is ...

Epigenomics is the systematic analysis of the global state of gene expression not attributable to mutational changes in the underlying DNA genome. An organism has multiple, cell type-specific ...

We are now entering the third decade of the 21st Century, and, especially in the last years, the achievements made by ...

Robin Cristofari's research group at the Institute of Biotechnology focuses on the way animals age, and on how food availability, obesity, lifestyle and environmental conditions can make them grow old ...