Editor’s note: This story is part of a joint series by the PBS NewsHour and The Detroit News examining the latest research on the role chronic stress may play in the growing childhood asthma epidemic.

An international team of researchers has discovered that formaldehyde, a widely spread pollutant and common metabolite in our body, interferes in the epigenetic programming of the cell. This finding ...

Epigenetics is the science of how your lifestyle, environment, and even emotions can alter your gene activity without ...

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 ...

Serving as a bridge between genotype and phenotype, epigenetics was first coined by Conrad Waddington as “the branch of biology which studies the causal interactions between genes and their products, ...

Some chemical tags on DNA, called epigenetic factors, that are present at a young age can affect the maximum life spans of mammal species. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A project applying the science of epigenetics to demonstrate the health dangers of hookah smoke won a first-place Addiction Science Award at the 2017 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair ...

Epigenetics is the new hip science. Time Magazine's front cover and article, 'Why your DNA isn't your Destiny' from January 2010 explains why. Its more explicit subtitle provided the hook - 'The new ...

Epigenetics is everywhere. Nary a day goes by without someone telling us something it explains. Epigenetics pops up frequently among non-scientists in all manner of discussions about heredity. And as ...

In a story of collaboration and community, researchers identified intergenerational epigenetic changes caused by war and trauma in Syrian refugees. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The term epigenetics is being thrown around by many who incorrectly believe "genes are our destiny" by deliberately misinterpreting data. What is epigenetics, really? And how much stock should we ...