A study published in Cancer Research looks at epigenetic changes in response to smoking.   Dr Mangesh Thorat, Honorary Reader … read more

A new study, published in Cell Reports, examines whether exercise, through epigentic effects, can have a cognitive benefit on the health of future offspring of adult male mice.  read more

A group of researchers publishing in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry have investigated prenatal high-fat and high-sugar diets, epigenetic markers and their relationship with ADHD in 164 children and report an association between an ‘unhealthy’ prenatal diet and higher ADHD symptoms. read more

In a study published in Science, scientists have looked at how diet is linked to epigenetic changes in mice. read more

A group of scientists publishing in the American Journal of Stem Cells have looked at the evidence of the contribution of the father’s genes and their modification (epigenetics), environmental and lifestyle factors, and the effects on any offspring. read more

The effect of a man’s weight on the markers which regulate activity of genes in their sperm is the subject of a paper published in the journal Cell Metabolism, with the authors reporting differences in the profile of such epigenetic markers between lean and obese men, and also following weight loss surgery. read more

In the presentation of their unpublished work at the American Society of Human Genetics 2015 annual meeting, a research group report their attempt to develop a way of using markers of modification of genes to predict sexual orientation in men. read more

It is becoming increasingly clear that genes can be turned on and off by having different molecular tags added or removed; these epigenetic changes allow fine tuning of the DNA code. In a paper published in the journal Clinical Epigenetics, a group of scientists has studied one such epigenetic change in several hundred women in relation to breast cancer and reported that high levels of it were related to lower levels of breast cancer. read more

Nature Neuroscience published research demonstrating that mice biologically inherit information learned by their grandfathers by training mice to fear a cherry blossom-like smell and then allowing them to mate. read more