Science news articles about 'epigenetic inheritance'

The other day I posted on my FaceBook profile that I better hurry up to finish my presentation on epigenetic inheritance. One of my friends commented: “I have no idea what ...

... to change its activity, is seen as an increasingly important factor contributing to so-called "epigenetic inheritance" in cancer development, Herceg said. An epigenetic event is when non-genetic ...

... were carried on through epigenetic means. There are four known mechanisms for epigenetic inheritance. According to Jablonka and Raz, the best understood of these is "DNA methylation." Methyls, small ...

... new biological arguments provide a modern context suggesting that Kammerer could be the actual discoverer of epigenetic inheritance." Vargas has studied Kammerer's evidence, as summarized in his 1920 ...

... . Though not a change to the DNA sequence itself, methylation status can be inherited, by what is known as epigenetics - inherited changes in gene regulation. "The epigenetic link to autism is ...