A recent review by Prof. Zhu Bing and Associate Professor Xiong Jun from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy ...

Green tea, turmeric and berries – all classed as ‘methyl adaptogens’ – are amongst the foods that can help reverse biological ageing, according to a new study ...

Long-term, persistent weekly or more frequent cannabis smoking leaves a distinct and partially reversible epigenetic ...

DNA methylation, which influences the ability of proteins to bind the DNA and thereby regulates gene expression and genomic stability, is the most widely known and studied epigenetic modification.

The first human disease to be linked to epigenetics was cancer, in 1983. Researchers found that diseased tissue from patients with colorectal cancer had less DNA methylation than normal tissue ...

Epigenetics is the study of how genes are turned off and on. ... boosts the activity of some genes and quiets others by adding and removing chemical tags—called methyl groups—to genes.

Epigenetics plays a vital role in cancer research in understanding the difference in nuclear organization, DNA methylation, and histone modification patterns between cancer cells and normal cells.

Even after the principles of epigenetics came to light, it was believed that methylation marks and other epigenetic changes to a parent's DNA were lost during the process of cell division that ...

Using epigenetic data from 348 mammal species, the researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to predict the maximum life span of each species based on CpG methylation patterns.

The most common mechanism through which different regulators can cause epigenetic change is DNA methylation. Through methylation, a molecule known as a methyl group attaches to DNA and signals to the ...

In the study, scientists analyzed DNA from 368 placenta samples, focusing on a type of epigenetic change called DNA methylation, which affects gene expression.