Epigenetics: why difficulties experienced during childhood can affect health
Difficult situations or events experienced during childhood can have an impact on DNA and on the risk of the appearance ...
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There are actually two types of obesity!
In one study, researchers identified two distinct obesity subtypes, with physiological and molecular differences that may impact disease occurrence and ...
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Epigenetics offers new avenues of treatment
With epigenetics, medicine enters a new dimension. How will epigenetics change our lives? For example, in pancreatic cancer.Is the world ...
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Anxiety, alcoholism: what if we reset the brain?
The use of gene editing would reverse the process born of excessive alcohol consumption by adolescents. THE ESSENTIAL Teenage alcohol ...
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Poverty written in our genes?
According to a recent American study, poverty would leave traces on nearly 10% of the genes in our genome. Science ...
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How health problems from the father are passed on to the child
A new study shows how the lifestyle and environment of the father is transmitted to his offspring by molecules that ...
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Hereditary depression: what if it didn’t go through the genes?
By studying male mice suffering from depression, Chinese researchers found that they were able to pass these traits on to ...
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Father stressed during childhood: his children are at risk of being stressed in turn
The father's early exposure to stress is transmitted to his child by accelerating the development of the baby's white matter. ...
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Epigenetics in the service of the treatment of depression
By using epigenetic modulators, researchers at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) managed to reduce the level of depression induced ...
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Discovery of a genetic target to treat endometriosis
An epigenetic drug can compensate for the mutation of part of a gene that is linked to the most invasive ...
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Covid-19: can it affect men’s sperm and have effects on the immune system of future children?
Research is currently underway to determine if men who have contracted Covid-19 experience a change in the genetic material of ...
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The placenta retains the memory of exposure to tobacco before pregnancy
Teams from Inserm, CNRS and Grenoble Alpes University have published a study according to which the placenta retains traces of ...
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Epigenome: endocrine disruptors early in life and poor diet later on accelerate aging
Endocrine disruptors early in life accelerate epigenome aging which can then be aggravated by poor diet later in life. THE ...
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Epigenetics: an intensive practice of meditation would modify our genes
According to a new study, a day of intensive meditation would be enough to counter the effects of stress and ...
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Biological age: what if we could get younger?
A study shows for the first time that our epigenetic clock, the one that measures our biological age, which is ...
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Breast cancer: why some patients resist targeted therapies
According to a recent Canadian study, patients with breast cancer who do not respond well to targeted therapies have different ...
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Epigenetics: when our daily life influences our genes
© istockWhat is epigenetics?When designing, the great Russian roulette wheel of the geneticendows us with irreversible characteristics carried by the ...
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