A new review published in the Biomolecules and Biomedicine journal sheds light on how genetics and epigenetics shape the development of periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can lead to ...

The central dogma proposed that genetic information predominantly transfers from DNA to RNA during gene expression to make a functional product protein. This absolute theory has been debunked because ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

The human body is composed of trillions of cells, yet we start as a single, fertilized cell that simply divides, over and over. As new daughter cells are created during development, it's crucial that ...

As I suggested in previous posts, many media, popular science, and official pronouncements about genetics, epigenetics, and genomics are sometimes at best misleading, and at worst, down-right wrong.

The same pathogen can often elicit very different responses from different people. Scientists sought to understand more about ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

As the climate crisis intensifies, traditional genetic breeding alone may not keep pace with the rapid shifts in environmental stressors. While the ...

A single exposure to a toxic fungicide during pregnancy can increase the risk of disease for 20 subsequent generations—with ...

Scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic 'marks' in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may keep at least a ...