Maternal prenatal stress related to natural and human-made disasters can lead to epigenetic modifications in offspring, ...

Omar Abdel-Wahab is a physician-scientist who studies the role of epigenetics in blood cancers. If you’ve ever known a set of identical twins, you might have been struck by what they didn’t have in ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

A few years ago, David Crews decided to put his laboratory rats at the University of Texas, Austin under an inordinate amount of stress. Beyond testing what might happen to minds and bodies under ...

Last Friday, an FDA advisory panel voted unanimously against recommending the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab. Based on evidence from two clinical trials, they found that the data did not show that the ...

Research into epigenetics has shown that environmental factors affect characteristics of organisms. These changes are sometimes passed on to the offspring. Does this in any way oppose Darwin's theory ...

A discussion of nature versus nurture wouldn’t be complete without an explanation of epigenetics. Tossed into the debate as the answer we’ve all been waiting for, epigenetics simply adds one more ...

Epigenetics is the science of how your lifestyle, environment, and even emotions can alter your gene activity without ...

Isn't our genetic legacy hardwired? From Mendel and Darwin in the 19th century to Watson and Crick in the 20th, scientists have shown that chromosomes passed from parent to child form a genetic ...