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

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

These increases were associated with chromatin remodelling, as an increase in histone H3 Lys4 (H3K4) methylation at GABAergic gene loci was also observed over this period of development.

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

Findings published in Clinical Epigenetics underscore the impact of differentially methylated regions in pregnancy ...

The epigenetic modification, DNA methylation, is characterized by 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) and found in specific genomic ...

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

Research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution introduces a novel method for inferring DNA methylation patterns in non-skeletal tissues from ancient specimens, providing new insights into human ...

beds.ac.uk Background Epigenetics is the study of processes—beyond DNA sequence alteration—producing heritable characteristics. For example, DNA methylation modifies gene expression without altering ...

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

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