The term epigenetics was first used by a Cambridge alumnus, Conrad Waddington, in the 1940s (before the discovery of the ...

Anyone who has ever tried to get rid of a few extra kilos knows the frustration: the weight drops initially, only to be back ...

A question of discipline? No, there are probably also physiological reasons. Ferdinand von Meyenn is Assistant Professor of ...

Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the company delivering a new generation of nanopore-based molecular sensing technology, today ...

A new project is expected to help us understand diseases such as cancer and dementia, by creating a first-of-its-kind ...

Their genetic codes are entirely the same, so you might think they would grow to be exactly the same in every way, right? Not quite. Enter epigenetics, the fascinating science of how your behaviors ...

Research in biomedical laboratories has been changing significantly in recent years, to the point that test tubes have given ...

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Researchers have discovered a mechanism behind the yo-yo effect: fat cells have a memory that is based on epigenetics. Researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered a mechanism behind the yo-yo effect ...