Researchers at RIKEN have uncovered a mechanism by which the effects of stress in the fly species Drosophila are inherited epigenetically over many generations through changes to the structure of ...

A collaborative team led by Ana Boskovic and Jamie Hackett at EMBL Rome explored how different paternal preconception ...

The transgenerational inheritance of epigenctic characters occur in plants. An epigenetic mutant has been found to inherit acquired traits ONLY under certain light conditions. This research will ...

This mechanism for conferring longevity across generations could also explain how other stress-adaptive traits are passed to offspring.

New research in the roundworm C. elegans shows how changes in the parent’s lysosomes that promote longevity are transferred ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things - including a crucial event that happened ...