Imprinting disorders are a heterogeneous group of congenital conditions arising from aberrant genomic imprinting, wherein gene expression is determined by parent-of-origin-specific epigenetic ...

In mammals, the expression of certain genes depends on which parent they were inherited from. For most genes in a cell, both copies are turned either on or off. But for a small subset of genes in ...

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A research team has recently made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the DNA copying machine helps pass on epigenetic information to maintain gene traits at each cell division.

For their discovery of genomic imprinting, developmental biologists Davor Solter and Azim Surani will receive the 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, endowed with €120,000, on March 14 at ...

A research team led by Professor Yuanliang ZHAI at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) collaborating with Professor Ning GAO and Professor Qing LI from Peking ...