Why do animals behave differently, and what are the consequences of this? A research team from the Collaborative Research Center NC³ at Bielefeld University and the University of Münster now provides ...

Season 10 of The Rhonda Swan Show continues to deliver powerhouse voices and transformative conversations. In this episode, Rhonda welcomes Lisa Thomas, renowned epigenetics expert, TEDx speaker, and ...

A study reveals that DNA modifications shape individual behavior, and ecological niches, while feedback from environmental changes creates new epigenetic patterns, influencing evolution.

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 ...

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 ...

Aging may "erase" the epigenetic markers that control gene expression in the brain, and this may snowball to cause unintended ...

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 ...

While hoarding behavior has traditionally been understood through psychological and environmental lenses, recent research suggests that epigenetics may play a significant role in the development and ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Sanford Burnham Prebys explore genetic factors in separate papers ...