Every cell type in the human body carries the same approximately 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA, yet a liver cell behaves nothing like a neuron. The epigenome explains this difference: in each cell, ...

Epigenetic aging clocks use DNA methylation patterns to measure biological age and predict health risks across human tissues.

DNA methylation is a key epigenome component that helps dictate how genes are expressed, contributing to normal cell and tissue differentiation during development, as well as the process of biological ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: In a new study published in the journal eLife, scientists from Stanford ...