Typically, the information encoded in DNA allows organisms to develop, function, and pass traits across generations. Yet DNA ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

A mouse experiment has revealed that one parent’s epigenetic methylation pattern can rewrite the matching gene inherited from ...

Live Science spoke with Alika Maunakea, an Native Hawaiian epigeneticist, about how epigenetics underpins health disparities between Native Hawaiians and others in Hawaii.

Scientists have found a way to manipulate gene expression using the gene editing tool CRISPR, and they have shown that it is possible to control one aspect of the inflammatory response this way. This ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) arises from an intricate interplay between inherited genetic variants and environmentally induced epigenetic modifications. Twin and family studies estimate ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

Scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic 'marks' in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may keep at least a ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), defined as the failure of two or more consecutive clinical pregnancies, affects up to 5% of couples and carries profound psychological and medical consequences. Genetic ...

When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to DNA, the four-letter code containing the instructions for building a living organism. Scientists know that DNA encodes everything from hair ...

Obesity rates are increasing in the United States and around the world, and the condition has been linked to increases in the risks of a wide range of health disorders, including diabetes and ...