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 ...

Multiple genetic and environmental factors, including nutrition, have a critical role in age-related cognitive decline, dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Advances in epigenetics are increasing ...