Omar Abdel-Wahab is a physician-scientist who studies the role of epigenetics in blood cancers. If you’ve ever known a set of identical twins, you might have been struck by what they didn’t have in ...

insights from industryDr. Amy Johnson & Dr. Lewis FrancisBusiness Manager, Porvair SciencesAssociate Professor, Swansea University An interview from Dr. Amy Johnson, Business and Technical Product ...

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A few years ago, David Crews decided to put his laboratory rats at the University of Texas, Austin under an inordinate amount of stress. Beyond testing what might happen to minds and bodies under ...

Last Friday, an FDA advisory panel voted unanimously against recommending the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab. Based on evidence from two clinical trials, they found that the data did not show that the ...

A discussion of nature versus nurture wouldn’t be complete without an explanation of epigenetics. Tossed into the debate as the answer we’ve all been waiting for, epigenetics simply adds one more ...

Merlin Crossley receives funding from the University of New South Wales, the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. The word epigenetics means things imposed ...

Epigenetics is the study of the impact of human lifestyle and environmental factors on gene expression patterns. Epigenetic changes are dynamic and reversible and inherited somatically. These changes ...

Research into epigenetics has shown that environmental factors affect characteristics of organisms. These changes are sometimes passed on to the offspring. Does this in any way oppose Darwin's theory ...

Scientists are working to develop an operational definition of "epigenetics" -- a rapidly growing research field that investigates heritable alterations in gene expression caused by mechanisms other ...

Most of us get an introduction—whether we remember it or not—to genetics in our first biology class. We learn that genes, made up of DNA, are the molecular blueprint that make us who we are, and that ...