Scientists have unveiled a link between childhood stress and epigenetic changes in sperm cells that could affect future ...

Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more ...

Apart from furthering our basic understanding of epigenetic inheritance, the genome-wide isolation of sequence-independent, stable epialleles could be an important goal in marker-assisted plant ...

A new study of Holocaust survivors provides the strongest proof yet that genetic changes that occur during life can be transmitted across generations. Every generation of Jews, it is thought, must ...

“Avoid toxic people and spend time only with positive people,” she adds. In the end it's a chain reaction—good social ...

In the intricate science of reproduction, the creation of offspring has long relied on the union of sperm and eggs, whether ...

The understanding of the bases for genetic and epigenetic inheritance has been improved tremendously over the last decades. While Gregor Mendels results completely revolutionized the basic ...

It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring ... context of a cell or organism (e.g. dominance and epigenetics), gene distribution, and variation and change ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK ...

Of particular interest is the silencing of tumor-suppressor genes by epigenetic alteration. Recent progress in understanding epigenetic modification and gene silencing has led to new opportunities ...

DEAR ERIC: The most important family member to me is my brother, the only person who’s been there since my birth and never let me down. We’re both retired, and he’s very, very sick, partly ...