Egg cells are kept in a form of stasis from when they are first formed in the fetus until they mature in adulthood, by a protein which regulates transcription, a new study in mice has shown...
Embryos containing donated mitochondria, created via a method intended to avoid the transmission of mitochondrial disease, seem similar to those created via IVF with ICSI...
A new magnetic resonance imaging technique has allowed scientists to observe epigenetic changes in the brain.
A new study shows that embryos begin to show gene expression when they are just at the single-cell stage, right after fertilisation...
A protein that is known to be affected in people with the rare ageing disease Cockayne syndrome, has been shown to interact with four-stranded DNA...
The entire repair cycle of DNA replication has been identified for the first time...
Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of DNA transcription regulation, controlled by specialised subtypes of RNA molecules...
For the first time US researchers have shown that not only genetics but a different level of developmental regulation called epigenetics impacts the innate drive of mice to exercise...
Two separate genomic studies of childhood cancers reveal differences compared with adult cancers, potentially opening new therapeutic avenues...
Several psychiatric disorders — autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression — share patterns of gene activity, an international team of scientists has found...
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