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

Professor Asaf Hellman and his research team at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School have unveiled new findings in the realm of methylation-directed regulatory networks. Their study sheds ...

The SWI/SNF Ig-Fold for Transcription Factor Interactions or 'SWIFT' domain on mSWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes engage ...

Precision and timing of gene expression is essential for normal biological functions and, when disrupted, can lead to many ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

Baylor College of Medicine researchers report that they found the mechanism by which normal brain cells regulate the expression of the NFIA, or nuclear factor IA, gene, which is critical for both ...

Epigenome editing has followed a similar path, in that more recent technological breakthroughs have enabled scientists to apply the discoveries made in previous decades. Epigenome editing performs a ...

Epigenetics is the study of various heritable alterations that control gene expression without changing the DNA sequence. 1 The name epigenetics comes from the Greek prefix “epi”, which means on top ...

Estrogen is known as an important hormone, and it can control many functions by regulating the activity of hundreds of genes.