Why do we grow up to look, act, and feel as we do? Through most of the twentieth century,
scientists and laypeople answered this question by referring to two factors alone: our …

A big part of the answer, scientists now think, is epigenetics—how nurture shapes nature.
Epigenetic mechanisms are molecular events that govern the way the environment …

Epigenetics provides the opportunity to revolutionize our understanding of the role of
genetics and the environment in explaining human behavior, although the use of …

Sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, the Warren Alpert Medical School of
Brown University and the University of Massachusetts Boston,“Behavioral Epigenetics” was …

The idea that inherited genotypes define phenotypes has been paramount in modern
biology. The question remains, however, whether stable phenotypes could be also inherited …

In the past decade, there have been exciting advances in the field of behavioral epigenetics
that have provided new insights into a biological basis of neural and behavioral effects of …

The Human Genome Project mapped the complete DNA sequence that exists in each
human cell, but questions remain about how genes are expressed. Epigenetics is defined as …

Exactly 70 years ago a German dermatologist named Hermann Siemens published the first
complete description of a new method for determining whether scholastic achievement and …

Epigenetic mechanisms govern the transcription of the genome. Research with model
systems reveals that environmental conditions can directly influence epigenetic mechanisms …

Epigenetics is one of the most scientifically important, and legally and ethically significant,
cutting-edge subjects of scientific discovery. Epigenetics link environmental and genetic …