The authors claim it is the first experimental evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance using methylation-edited mice. “It’s kind of a dream experiment,” says Patrick Allard, an ...

A year before, she had bred mice to examine how epigenetic alterations in their fathers’ sperm ... kind of asking them to point out what was wrong with the experiment,” she says. She had knocked out ...

A gene called high mobility group A1 (HMGA1) may be the key that opens the door to the development of colon cancer, according ...

Next, researchers found similar epigenetic changes to fat cells in mice. In another experiment, they put obese mice on a diet. Once the mice had lost weight, researchers fed them a high-fat diet ...

In a control experiment, we cloned two additional mice from an F1 subcloned cell ... For example, manipulating the epigenetic status of F1 ES cells in vitro before cloning may allow difficult ...

Recent research in the field of epigenetics (the study ... Mansuy's experiments demonstrated that enriching environments for traumatized mice reduced behavioral symptoms. These improvements ...

At the cellular level, pieces of important genetic information, called small RNA, have the ability to introduce important ...

Dr. R. L. Jirtle, [3] of the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, discussed the effects of fetal nutrition on epigenetic phenomena, and their influence on adult disease ...