Can Your Diet Epigenetically Shape Your Child’s Health?
…is also known as “fetal programming” or “fetal origins hypothesis.” 2,4 What is epigenetics? Epigenetics is the study of how the expression of DNA can be changed without changing the…
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Epigenetic Mechanism May Promote Healthy Aging
…to repair damage done to tissues and DNA over time. But Dr. Baris Tursun from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin hopes to find a way…
Parents Who Exercise Could Epigenetically Pass on Heightened Learning Ability to Their Children
…passed on to the next generation through epigenetic marks on DNA, a phenomenon called epigenetic inheritance. For example, these chemical tags could be influenced by a father’s diet, epigenetically impacting…
Scientists Develop a New RNA Sequencing Approach to Advance Our Understanding of the Human Microbiome
…reported on epigenetic studies where RNA methylation was found to be involved in memory formation and child development and how the most abundant modification, 6-methyladenosine (m6A), is being researched for…
Epigenetic Drugs That Fight Cancer Also Show Promise as Antivirals
…act epigenetically have the power to be used as broad spectrum antivirals. Specifically, the researchers looked at histone methyltransferases EZH2/1 inhibitors which can help fight against cancer. Numerous DNA viruses,…
Exercise Linked to Epigenetic Benefits that Keep the Brain Healthy
…by adjusting chromatin structure so that the DNA is more tightly wound around the histones, thereby reducing the expression of certain genes. They found that exercise was linked to a…
The Epigenetics of Antifungal Resistance
…alterations have been studied in oncological contexts, culminating in multiple FDA-approve dcancer therapeutics (Heerboth et. al, 2014). Common epigenetic modifications include acetylation, methylation, sumoylation, alterations to chromatin structure, and, perhaps…
High Fat Diet in Fruit Flies Links Epigenetics to Inherited Heart Disease
…flies to the offspring from flies who ate a normal diet and found that, when histone methylation mark H3K27me3 was reduced, the future generations were protected from heart failure. The…
Epigenetic Insights on Nutrition, Hormones and Eating Behavior
…content in the promoter regions of the neuropeptides and receptors involved in these neuroendrocrine functions. Thus, they are potential candidates for methylation-dependent alterations of the expressivity. 9 Insulin matters too…
Alcohol Byproducts Can Epigenetically Trigger Cravings
…chemicals called acetyl groups to the proteins that package DNA, called histones,” noted one of the lead authors on this study, Dr. Shelley Berger, director of the Penn Epigenetics Institute…
