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Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered a potential epigenetic explanation for why individuals with epilepsy, particularly…
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For the first time, anthropologists from The University of Texas at Austin have shown that epigenetic tags on DNA, such…
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New research published in JAMA Oncology shows that DNA damage that occurs as a result of smoking may be found…
Scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital conducted a study that illuminates a mechanism by which leukemia cells resist steroids,…
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In arguably the greatest feat of epigenetic orchestration, every single cell in female marsupial and eutherian mammals permanently silences an…