A groundbreaking study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and epigenetics company TruDiagnostic has unveiled new DNA markers associated with retroelements—remnants of ancient viral genetic ...

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Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more research is needed.

The recent union of molecular genetic methods and ecology is a great advance in evolutionary biology research. Molecular ecologists employ an array of molecular tools to study the genetic ...

Our genes contain all the instructions our body needs to function, but their expression must be finely regulated to guarantee ...

DNA microsatellites are genetic markers that can be useful in addressing questions at a variety of scales, ranging from the extremely fine-grained to the fairly coarse-grained. More specifically, this ...

current marker-based methods of analysis yield test results that are both 99.99% accurate and applicable in a variety of settings. With the ongoing advancement of DNA sequencing and analytical ...

Our genes contain all the instructions our body needs to function, but their expression must be finely regulated to guarantee that each cell performs its role optimally.

Aging involves complex cellular and molecular changes, including epigenetic modifications like Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) methylation and histone marks. Age predictors, or "clocks," have been ...

Researchers have discovered that DNA and RNA epigenetics form a complementary system that precisely regulates gene activity, ...