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Parents' Stress Leaves Lasting Marks on Children’s Genes, Researchers Find
August 30, 2011 — Researchers have shown that parental stress during their children's early years can leave an imprint on their sons' or daughters' genes -- an imprint that lasts into adolescence and may affect how ... > full story -
Study on Silencing of Tumor Suppressor Gene Suggests New Target for Lymphoma
August 9, 2011 — Researchers have found that a cancer-causing fusion protein works by silencing the tumor suppressor gene IL-2R common gamma-chain. The results suggest news targets for lymphoma and other types of ... > full story -
Epigenetic Pathway and New Drug Show Promise in Reversing a Hard-to-Treat Childhood Cancer
July 11, 2011 — A difficult-to-treat form of childhood leukemia relies on changes in the structure of DNA -- so-called epigenetic changes -- to wreak genomic havoc within white blood cells, according to one of two ... > full story -
Kinetochores Prefer the 'Silent' DNA Sections of the Chromosome
July 5, 2011 — The protein complex responsible for the distribution of chromosomes during cell division is assembled in the transition regions between heterochromatin and euchromatin. The centromere is a ... > full story -
Maternal Nutrition: What Impact Does It Have on Gene Expression?
July 4, 2011 — During intrauterine life and lactation, undernutrition brings about modifications involving DNA, leading to metabolic pathologies at the adult age. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time, ... > full story -
Adult Stem Cells Carry Their Own Baggage: Epigenetics Guides Stem Cell Fate
June 30, 2011 — Adult stem and progenitor cells may not contain a clean genetic slate after all. A new report shows that these cells have unique "epigenetic signatures," which change once a cell differentiates. ... > full story -
Scientists Expose Cancer Cells' Universal 'Dark Matter'; Findings Reveal Chaos in Biochemical Alterations of Cancer Cells
June 26, 2011 — Using the latest gene sequencing tools to examine so-called epigenetic influences on the DNA makeup of colon cancer, a team of researchers says its results suggest cancer treatment might eventually ... > full story -
Oxytocin Promises Hope in Prader-Willi Syndrome, Research Suggests
June 24, 2011 — Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disorder which affects one child in 25,000. Children born with this syndrome have a range of complex neurological and developmental problems which continue ... > full story -
Mechanism for Stress-Induced Epigenetic Inheritance Uncovered in New Study
June 23, 2011 — Researchers have uncovered a mechanism by which the effects of stress in the fly species Drosophila are inherited epigenetically over many generations through changes to the structure of chromatin, ... > full story -
Effects of Stress Can Be Inherited, and Here's How
June 23, 2011 — None of us are strangers to stress of various kinds. It turns out the effects of all those stresses can change the fate of future generation, influencing our very DNA without any change to the ... > full story
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