Researchers at the University of Exeter have created a detailed temporal map of chemical changes to DNA through development ...

Researchers have built a detailed map of DNA methylation changes in nearly 1,000 human brains from six weeks after conception ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have created a detailed temporal map of chemical changes to DNA through development ...

The visible effects of ageing on our body are in part linked to invisible changes in gene activity. The epigenetic process of DNA methylation — the addition or removal of tags called methyl groups — ...

Epigenetic changes during early brain development, and the complexities of autism. Also, how bacteria learn to parry antibiotics, the subterranean burp that shook the Island of Santorini, and new ...

Plasticity in cancer cells describes their inherent ability to undergo alterations and turn certain features on and off at different times.  This flex | Cancer ...

New research shows that cancer cells don’t just grow; they adapt when stressed. When squeezed inside tissues, they transform ...

HHMI Janelia Research Campus Senior Group Leader Meng Wang and her team study longevity. They've shown that by overexpressing an enzyme in the lysosomes of the roundworm C. elegans, they can extend ...

This mechanism for conferring longevity across generations could also explain how other stress-adaptive traits are passed to offspring.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham's Bladder Cancer Research Center have used a new method to detect chemical ...