A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...

Air pollution may switch off genes that make healthy sperm, scientists have discovered. Previous studies have shown that men ...

Every time a cell copies its DNA, parts of the genome are exposed and vulnerable to damage or errors. Molecular biologist ...

A groundbreaking study of over 2,000 men reveals that exposure to common outdoor pollutants causes epigenetic changes in ...

Abraham Lincoln, for one, may have had the syndrome—and are at very high risk of a kind of fatal rupture in the heart.

A new study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has uncovered how one of the most common ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Could a viral infection you experience today cause mental health disorders for generations of your descendants? Absolutely.

New research presented today at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) suggests that exposure to air pollution may impact genes associated with ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

The Indian government has strengthened oversight of cell and gene therapies by bringing the novel modalities into the ...