A fundamental discovery about a driver of healthy development in embryos could rewrite our understanding of what can be inherited from our parents and how their life experiences may shape us.
Aug 11, 2022
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New research from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine finds that patients with ASXL1-mutant chronic myelomonocytic leukemia—an uncommon type of cancer of the bone marrow—have distinctive epigenetic changes ...
Mar 17, 2022
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Metformin, a drug commonly prescribed against diabetes, holds promise against a rare type of childhood brain tumor in laboratory studies, an international team of researchers led by the University of Michigan Health Rogel ...
Oct 6, 2021
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and migraine often co-occur, but researchers knew relatively little about how or why this happens. A new study in Frontiers in Neuroscience is the first to investigate if the conditions ...
Jun 22, 2021
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A new review of existing evidence proposes eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that chart the biological pathways through which pollutants contribute to disease: oxidative stress and inflammation, genomic alterations ...
Mar 5, 2021
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New findings suggest that late-onset Alzheimer's Disease is driven by epigenetic changes—how and when certain genes are turned on and off—in the brain. Results were published today in Nature Genetics.
Sep 28, 2020
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Cannabis use makes young brains more sensitive to the first exposure to cocaine, according to a new study on rodents led by scientists at Columbia University and the University of Cagliari in Italy. By monitoring the brains ...
Apr 20, 2020
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Biologically important changes in DNA seen in smokers are also being found in people who vape, according to a new study published in the journal Epigenetics.
Feb 12, 2020
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Though epigenetic disorders—diseases caused by faulty gene expression—are still rare overall, babies born using fertility treatments have up to an 11-fold higher risk of inheriting them. According to a new mouse study ...
Nov 26, 2019
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Any effect that assisted reproduction technology has on babies' genes is largely corrected by adulthood, new research led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute has found.
Sep 3, 2019
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