Methylation in the placentas of male and female fetuses has marked differences, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland...
Several epigenetic pathways have been found to play a role in the spatial organisation of DNA during early embryonic development in mice...
Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics at the Open University, comments on the recent findings published in Nature Medicine aiming to quantify the contributions of genetics and environmental factors in ageing and mortality...
A programmable stem cell model, with the ability to mimic early stages of mammalian development, has been created using an engineering biology technique...
Gene silencing that causes Prader-Willi syndrome can be efficiently undone by using CRISPR-based epigenome editing, new research has revealed...
Remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, are involved in regulating the start of gene expression during mammalian embryonic development, a study suggests...
A new way to store information in DNA has been discovered...
Gene expression in the placenta is different for male and female fetuses during the first trimester...
A map of DNA alterations in two regions of the developing human brain has been created...
Researchers have developed a tool they say can be used to predict mortality risk using DNA methylation data, from cheek cells rather than from blood...
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