Child Development, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 326-340 (15 pages) This study ...

A brief history of the term and concept epigenetics / Brian K. Hall -- Heuristic reductionism and the relative significance of epigenetic inheritance in evolution / James Griesemer -- The epigenetics ...

In a recent study published in Cell Metabolism, a research paper provides the first evidence that sperm microRNAs act as ...

The health of mothers during pregnancy has long been known to play a role in the lifelong mental and physical health of ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have created a detailed temporal map of chemical changes to DNA through development ...

Child Development, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 154-164 (11 pages) The ...

Researchers from the Cancer Epigenetics group led by Dr. Manel Esteller at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute and Dr. Aurora Pujol, from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute ...

Obesity before pregnancy, not just during, may shape a child’s brain and raise the risk of autism spectrum disorder, a new study has found. Epigenetic changes in eggs triggered gene shifts linked to ...

Epigenetics may have more control over cancer development than previously thought, according to two papers published simultaneously. An international collaboration of researchers at The Institute of ...