Epigenetics refers to how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unlike genetic changes or ...

A new review published in the Biomolecules and Biomedicine journal sheds light on how genetics and epigenetics shape the development of periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can lead to ...

As next-generation sequencing swept across much of biology, scientists collected enormous amounts of information on the strings of bases—adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine—that make up DNA, but ...

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 ...

Social stress can affect the way genes are expressed. A new study has found that epigenetic effects could explain why some people who experience trauma in childhood have an increase in the risk of ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...