Cancer researchers have long treated genetic chaos and epigenetic rewiring as separate engines of disease, two parallel ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

As people grow older, their immune systems do not simply slow down, they often become locked into a simmering, ...

Back in 1942, the term epigenetics was introduced by Conrad Waddington to present a picture of cell development, one in which cells descended a hillside and followed diverging valley paths before ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

Genome remethylation is essential for mammalian development but specific reasons are unclear. Here we examined embryonic stem (ES) cell fate in the absence of de novo DNA methyltransferases. We ...

Epigenetics is the science of how your lifestyle, environment, and even emotions can alter your gene activity without ...

Paper in Cloning and Stem Cells shows that animal eggs do not support specific reprogramming toward the normal human embryonic state. Investigators at Advanced Cell Technology (ACTC) have found that ...

Global DNA-methylation is affected in G- cells. Global methylation level analysis in G− and G+ condition. (A) Bart chart representing the methylation level of individual sample (y-axis, 1 = 100%) in ...