Social stress can affect the way genes are expressed. A new study has found that epigenetic effects could explain why some people who experience trauma in childhood have an increase in the risk of ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

Stochasticity is everywhere -- and finding the order in disorder can unlock new ways to understand biology. Erlon Silva - TRI Digital/Moment via Getty Images Cancer is often seen as a disease that ...

Researchers assessed DNA methylation at 800,000 sites in the genome in blood samples collected from 900 people. The study includes extensive clinical information on participants, who all provided ...

Eileen Crimmins, Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California and Jessica Faul, Research Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan ...

In a recent study published in the Science Advances Journal, researchers reported the link between aging, cancer, and epigenomic changes. Recent studies have reported that aging is a leading risk ...

Investigators from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model, based on tumor-associated epigenetic factors, which they say can predict patient ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, ...