Environment + Genes = Us. Over the 20th century as our knowledge of biology increased, this simple equation seemed to be the general overriding theory as to what ultimately controls the development of ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. – Mad cows, cloned embryos, cocaine addicts, calico kittens, and “identical” twins: all of these living creatures have epigenetics to credit for some quirky characteristics.

Experiments that showed a surprising persistence of sexiness in worms reveal how much we are still learning about the rules governing heritability, epigenetics and natural selection. Playing the ...

Epigenetic tags may not be handed down through generations, but research is unveiling new avenues to evaluate disease and the aging process. What to know: About a decade ago, research seemed to show ...

Endocrine disruptors are critical environmental exposures that influence health and can promote epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease and abnormal physiology. Advances in 2015 included ...

The earliest studies of genetic inheritance were very straightforward - Gregor Mendel documented the passage of certain easily observable traits as they passed down through generations of pea plants.

First author Kiyomi Kaneshiro in the Strome lab at UC Santa Cruz. Without altering the genetic code in the DNA, epigenetic modifications can change how genes are expressed, affecting an organism’s ...

The existence of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance has now been demonstrated among Drosophila fruit flies. By temporarily modifying the function of Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins--which play an ...

Generational wounds may live in our genes. New research suggests that childhood trauma leads to a difference in the ...

Novel research presented at the 41st annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) has found that embryos from women with PCOS carry a distinctive "epigenetic ...

Parents’ mutations, even if they’re not inherited by offspring, could affect subsequent generations through changes to epigenetic marks, a study finds. Although epigenetic changes were long thought to ...