Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...
Not everything inside us is, strictly speaking, us. The closer we look at the genome, the more we appreciate the role of small RNAs in what we call epigenetic inheritance. That's when traits get ...
A team of genetic engineers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, working with a colleague from Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, has demonstrated transgenerational epigenetic ...
Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...
The human genome may have been sequenced, but we are still learning about how it works. One of the features of the genome scientists are still deciphering is epigenetics, which refers to the various ...
Srinivasu Karri is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. He investigates how cells accurately recycle parental histones during DNA replication to maintain critical chromatin states ...
A research team led by Professor Yuanliang ZHAI at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) collaborating with Professor Ning GAO and Professor Qing LI from Peking ...
New research in C. elegans from scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) helps explain how changes in the parents’ lysosomes that promote longevity are transferred to their offspring.
How transgenerational trauma is perpetuated may be more complex than you think. Researchers found that trauma-altered genes ...
Gail Cornwall received $2.9 million to test whether protein structures in germ granules can transmit environmentally acquired ...
Maternal obesity is linked to heightened metabolic disease risk in offspring, but the mediators of this intergenerational effect remain unclear. Using a diet-induced obesity (DIO) mouse model, we ...