As the climate crisis intensifies, traditional genetic breeding alone may not keep pace with the rapid shifts in environmental stressors. While the ...

Studies find genetic, epigenetic, and transgenerational effects from pesticide exposure, particularly during early life.

Can 100-Year-Old Research Lead to the Discovery of Novel Mechanisms of Inheritance? International Team to Reevaluate and Recreate Experiments from Vienna’s Legendary Biologische Versuchsanstalt, Led ...

According to epigenetics -- the study of inheritable changes in gene expression not directly coded in our DNA -- our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children's children.

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 ...

The latest study from the Sharma Lab makes the mechanisms of how epigenetic information is established in sperm cells, and how that encoding affects offspring health, a little less of a scientific ...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Theoretical and ...

A new study from Washington State University reports that a single pregnancy exposure to a toxic fungicide can raise disease ...