The maximum life span of each species is estimated using the age of its longest-living member, and these vary by orders of magnitude among mammals. Now, scientists propose that "epigenetics" could at ...
Epigenetic processes partly account for this regulation. Epigenetics is the structural modification of chromosomal areas to record, signal, or maintain changed activity levels. Since the word "epi" ...
Epigenetics, the dynamic regulation of genetic expression, involves complex molecular mechanisms. While the process of gene silencing by methylating the H3K27 position in histones is understood, not ...
Students are no strangers to stress, irregular eating habits, and environmental exposures—factors that can impact gene expression through epigenetic changes. Epigenetics is the study of how gene ...
The team of Professor Christof Niehrs at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, has discovered that a DNA modification called 5-formylcytosine (5fC) functions as an activating ...