Few ideas in modern biology have captured the public imagination quite like epigenetics. The promise is seductive: chemical ...

Epigenetics has spent the past two decades promising to rewrite the rules of biology. The idea that chemical tags sitting on top of DNA can switch genes on and off, that these tags can be shaped by ...

From Gene Expression Regulation to Understanding PathophysiologyIntroductionWhile genetic factors contribute strongly to the ...

What if a single exposure to a toxic chemical could have effects that continued to ramify for the next 20 generations, causing chronic disease symptoms that got worse, not better, as time passed?

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.

A single exposure to a toxic fungicide during pregnancy can increase the risk of disease for 20 subsequent generations – with inherited health problems worsening many generations after exposure. Those ...