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High-Fat Diet During Pregnancy Programs Child for Future Diabetes, Study Suggests
May 25, 2011 — A high-fat diet during pregnancy may program a woman's baby for future diabetes, even if she herself is not obese or diabetic, according to a new ... > full story -
Maternal Smoking Causes Changes in Fetal DNA, Study Finds
May 18, 2011 — Children whose mothers or grandmothers smoked during pregnancy are at increased risk of asthma in childhood, but the underlying causes of this are not well understood. Now a new study indicates ... > full story -
Why Some Genes Are Silenced: Researchers Find Clue as to How Notes Are Played on the 'Genetic Piano'
May 12, 2011 — Scientists report an epigenetic rationale as to how some genes are silenced and others aren't. By reversing this effect, it may be possible to devise therapies for cancer and other ... > full story -
Epigenetic Study Reveals New Insights Into Breast Cancer
May 5, 2011 — The most comprehensive analysis yet of the epigenetic modifications present in breast cancer has revealed potentially important new ways to detect and treat the disease, Belgian researchers have ... > full story -
Traumatizing Your DNA: Researcher Warns That It Isn't 'All in the Genes'
March 23, 2011 — After an exhaustive survey of contemporary epigenetics studies, one researcher has concluded that some of the effects of stress, cancer and other chronic diseases may be passed on to our offspring -- ... > full story -
Why Poor Diet During Pregnancy Negatively Affects Offspring's Long-Term Health
March 7, 2011 — Poor diet during pregnancy increases offspring's vulnerability to the effects of aging, new research has shown for the first ... > full story -
Molecular Mechanism Links Stress With Predisposition for Depression
January 26, 2011 — A new study provides insight into how stress impacts the brain and may help to explain why some individuals are predisposed to depression when they experience chronic stress. The research reveals ... > full story -
Molecular Rationale for Combining Targeted Agents to Treat Breast Cancer
January 14, 2011 — A new study provides a rational for treating breast cancer by combining two kinds of targeted agents, one that inhibits an overactive, cancer-causing signaling pathway in cancer cells and one that ... > full story -
Deep Genomics: In the Case of DNA, the Package Can Be as Important as Its Contents, New Work With Fruit Flies Reveals
January 13, 2011 — The modENCODE project is a massive ongoing effort to map all the elements in model organisms that affect whether genes are silenced or expressed. The research is part of the burgeoning new field of ... > full story -
You Are What Your Father Ate, Too: Paternal Diet Affects Lipid Metabolizing Genes in Offspring, Research Suggests
December 23, 2010 — We aren't just what we eat; we are what our parents ate, too. That's an emerging idea that is bolstered by a new study showing that mice sired by fathers fed on a low-protein diet show distinct and ... > full story -
Breakthrough in Melanoma Research: Protein Suppresses Progression of Melanoma
December 22, 2010 — In a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for patients with malignant melanoma, researchers have discovered that a particular protein suppresses the progression of melanoma through ... > full story -
Gene Alteration Identified That Predisposes to Syndrome With High Risk of Cancer
December 21, 2010 — Researchers have identified a new genetic alteration that predisposes individuals to Cowden syndrome, a rare disorder that is characterized by high risks of breast, thyroid and other cancers, ... > full story
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