A new project is expected to help us understand diseases such as cancer and dementia, by creating a first-of-its-kind ...

Most people who lose weight through dieting will see it creep back up, leading to a cycle of "yo-yo dieting" that's hard on ...

Epigenetics and epigenomics represent two burgeoning fields at the forefront of modern biological inquiry. Epigenetics investigates heritable changes in gene expression that occur without any ...

They analysed fat cells from obese mice, as well as those from mice that had lost weight after dieting. Their findings ...

Violence and its epigenetic consequences. Violence against women is not only a social problem, but also has profound ...

Oxford Nanopore's breakthrough genetic sequencing tech to analyse 50,000 samples from UK Biobank, to create a world-first ...

After successful weight loss, the risk of regaining the pounds is high. But why? A recent study conducted by ETH Zurich has ...

Research in biomedical laboratories has been changing significantly in recent years, to the point that test tubes have given ...

Discover why maintaining weight loss is challenging due to fat tissue memory and learn about epigenetic changes in fat cells ...