Omar Abdel-Wahab is a physician-scientist who studies the role of epigenetics in blood cancers. If you’ve ever known a set of identical twins, you might have been struck by what they didn’t have in ...

Epigenetics is like a symphony conductor, who with just a gesture of the baton, conveys the message to quiet the strings while turning up the horns. The symphony as a whole remains intact, but the ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

What you experience in your lifetime can modify your DNA, and these changes can be passed down through the generations. We explain what the new science of epigenetics means for your children and ...

Discreetly cloistered in a 19th-century hôtel particulier on Paris’s Champs-Élysées, the Biologique Recherche store displays its creams under bell jars like rare specimens in a laboratory. Which is ...

Research into epigenetics has shown that environmental factors affect characteristics of organisms. These changes are sometimes passed on to the offspring. Does this in any way oppose Darwin's theory ...

This is the first of two posts regarding the epigenetics of childhood adversity, based on excerpts from my new book, This Is Depression. To understand the term epigenetics, it’s necessary to have some ...

Darwin believed it even though Galton experimentally disproved it—and had the right idea in his so-called “Stirp” theory of inheritance. Freud stubbornly stuck to it despite repeated protests from ...

For decades, scientists and doctors assumed that cancer was caused by damage to some critical stretch of DNA within one's genome. But recently, a more complex picture has emerged, one that shows that ...

As an identical twin, I have always been fascinated by what determines who we are. Nature's clones are never truly identical, so what explains the differences between my brother and myself? How much ...