Epigenetic regulation in plants encompasses a range of molecular modifications that alter gene expression without changing the underlying DNA sequence. Central to this regulation are DNA methylation ...

Recent discoveries in the field of epigenetics, the study of inheritance of traits that occur without changing the DNA sequence, have shown that chronological age in mammals correlates with epigenetic ...

Not everything inside us is, strictly speaking, us. The closer we look at the genome, the more we appreciate the role of small RNAs in what we call epigenetic inheritance. That’s when traits get ...

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 ...

Findings surrounding the epigenetic inheritance that takes place in plants may have implications for agriculture, food supplies, and the environment. Now, new research has uncovered a key mechanism in ...

A team of researchers led by Prof. Xiao Jun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a new way in which temperature can ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...

University of Sheffield provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. It may sound strange but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this ...

Every cell within an organism shares an identical genetic blueprint. Their distinct identities stem from epigenetics, precise chemical markers that dictate gene expression. Errors in this epigenetic ...

A group of researchers shared some interesting discoveries about the existence of epigenetic clocks in plants. Pawel Czerwinski from Unsplash A group of researchers have discovered a profound ...

This study sought to examine the ethical and practical questions of epigenome editing and its use for therapeutic purposes, especially in the context of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and ...