COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. – Mad cows, cloned embryos, cocaine addicts, calico kittens, and “identical” twins: all of these living creatures have epigenetics to credit for some quirky characteristics.

Prediabetes is an extremely heterogeneous metabolic disorder. Scientists from several partner institutes of the German Center ...

T cells are central mediators of autoimmune disease pathogenesis, yet their functional states are not defined solely by antigen recognition or canonical ...

The Epigenetics Research Innovation Lab (ERIL) has been established to contribute to the growing epigenetics research community at MSK and support efforts to define the epigenetic mechanisms that ...

Psychology Assistant Professor Sarah Merrill studies the chemical tags that trauma and other adverse experiences can leave on children’s genes – and whether interventions can buffer the effects of ...

The availability of the human genome sequence has opened new avenues to broaden our understanding of human biology. Certainly, this information is key to facilitating examination of the molecular ...

Omar Abdel-Wahab is a physician-scientist who studies the role of epigenetics in blood cancers. If you’ve ever known a set of identical twins, you might have been struck by what they didn’t have in ...

The field of epigenetics has exploded in recent years, and for good reason. The more we understand about human behavior, trauma, and its transmission throughout future generations, the more epigenetic ...

Changes known as epigenetic modifications play an important role in cancer development, among other things. Being able to analyze them quickly and reliably could, for example, contribute significantly ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...