Epigenetics

Epigenetics is the study of chemical reactions that influence gene expression, through activation or deactivation of genes at specific times and locations.

How Diet Influences Gene Expression Through Epigenetic Mechanisms

This article explains how diet creates sustained epigenetic changes that affect long-term health, disease risk, aging, and future environmental responses.

Understanding the Role of Epigenetics in Cancer

Nutritional Epigenetics: How Food Shapes Genes Before Birth

Can Cannabis Use Alter Sperm DNA?

What is Single-Molecule Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing?

ChIP-Seq Analysis: Histone Modifications

Effect of Environmental Toxicants on Developing Neurodegenerative Conditions

How the Placenta Predicts Lifelong Health and Disease Risk

Age-Related Changes in Immune Function: Immunosenescence and Immune Modulation

What is Nutritional Genomics (Nutrigenomics)?

Systemic Telomere Length and Aging

Epigenetics in Drug Discovery: Modulating Gene Expression for Health

Nutritional Epigenetics: How Food Shapes Genes Before Birth

Understanding Synthetic Epigenetics

What Is Epigenetic Reprogramming—and Could It Reverse Aging?

The Exposome Framework: Connecting Pollution, Diet, and Disease Pathways

High-throughput single-cell DNA methylation profiling

The Role of Epigenetics in Human Disease

The 'Omics in Male Fertility Diagnostics

Cholangiocyte Biology and Its Implications in Cholangiopathies

Ovarian Aging Explained: Biological Age, Fertility, and Epigenetic Markers

Epigenetics for Multiple Sclerosis

Epigenetic Mechanisms in Type 2 Diabetes

ChIP-seq Advantages and Limitations

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

How an Anti-Inflammatory Diet Lowers Chronic Disease Risk

Latest Epigenetics News and Research

EGFR co-targeting and nanotechnology offer new triple-negative breast cancer therapies

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains one of the most challenging forms of breast cancer to treat because it lacks the estrogen, progesterone and HER2 receptors that enable targeted treatment in other breast cancer subtypes.

24 Sep 2026

Protein modification network plays vital role in cancer development

A review published in Genes & Diseases highlights the complex interplay between protein arginine methylation and ubiquitination, two forms of protein modification that can profoundly influence cancer development, progression and treatment response.

24 Sep 2026

Review highlights how altered metabolism drives kidney cancer growth

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the most common subtype of kidney cancer, is increasingly understood as a malignancy shaped by profound changes in cellular metabolism.

24 Sep 2026

EVITA clinical trial evaluates oral vitamin C for pre-cancerous blood disorders

Vitamin C boosts the activity of cellular proteins called TET enzymes that help control which genes are turned on or off.

21 Sep 2026

Daily vitamin C may benefit pre-cancerous blood disorder patients

Vitamin C is an essential nutrient that supports immune function, promotes wound healing and protects cells from molecular damage.

21 Sep 2026

Maternal illness may reshape fetal brain development through epigenetics

Neurodevelopmental conditions, which include autism spectrum disorders, ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), and more, impact around ten percent of the American population.

2 Sep 2026

Two scientists win Horwitz Prize for Rett syndrome breakthrough

Columbia University will award the 2026 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Adrian Bird and Huda Zoghbi for their pioneering work on epigenetic regulation in the nervous system and its role in human neurological disease, particularly Rett syndrome.

2 Sep 2026

Paternal sperm epigenetics may help explain early pregnancy loss

When a pregnancy ends early and unexplained, the search for answers usually begins with the mother. Lacey Luense, Ph.D., wants to know what the father's sperm might have to do with it.

28 Aug 2026

Cell proliferation gene plays a distinct role in cells that no longer proliferate

In a tale of identities as divergent as "The Prince and the Pauper," a well-known cancer-causing gene also influences cells in a zombie-like state meant to prevent cancer.

28 Aug 2026

New studies reveal hidden control hub for MYC-driven cancers

In a rare pair of papers published back-to-back in the journal Genes & Development, research teams led by senior author Anindya Bagchi, PhD, associate professor in the Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, establish a unified framework that governs one of cancer's most powerful master regulators.

19 Aug 2026

New machine learning model improves accuracy of prenatal genetic testing

Advances in genome sequencing are giving more families access to prenatal genetic testing and new information about an unborn baby's health, including whether genetic changes may link to a neurodevelopmental condition.

11 Aug 2026

Early-life stress rewires brain epigenetics to heighten sensitivity to future stress

. Early-life stress increased SETD7 and H3K4me1 in the ventral tegmental area of mice, creating an epigenetically primed state that heightened later transcriptional, neuronal, and behavioral responses to stress. Reducing Setd7 during development lowered H3K4me1 and weakened these stress-sensitizing effects, identifying a mechanism that may help explain how early adversity leaves lasting biological effects.

11 Aug 2026