Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Epigenetics is a rapidly growing field of study that focuses on the heritable changes in gene expression that occur without alterations to the underlying DNA sequence. These changes are caused by ...

Many of us take the ability to make babies for granted and yet know that for some prospective parents and babies, ...

They are awarded to provide support to exceptionally talented, mid-career researchers with a strong track-record of delivering research excellence to set up a new research group, or strengthen an ...

At the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, mouse geneticist Antoine Peters and his team investigate how ...

Four headshots, one of each of the successful ERCC grant winners These highly competitive grants had over 3,000 applicants this year. They are awarded ...

Some health traits trace strongly back to the mother’s side. This happens because of how eggs are formed, how DNA is packaged ...

What started as a fun peek into ancestry quickly turned into life-altering information for many of these people. The stories ...

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...

The role of epigenetic mechanisms in cancer has gained interest in recent studies. The reversible nature of epigenetic changes on genomic DNA and histones holds promise for the development of ...