For decades, aging has looked like a one-way street, a slow accumulation of damage written into our cells. Now a wave of ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, public reviews, and a provisional response from the authors. This study aims to ...

I understand why millions of Americans look up at the sky with concern. Videos of unusual cloud formations circulate on social media, accompanied by questions about “chemtrails” and secret weather ...

Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic modification have been widely observed in cancer research. Based on accumulating experimental evidence in recent years, beginning with metabolic reprogramming ...

A few days after a flash flood in Texas killed at least 135 people, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier promoted a new law he says will help the state avoid the same scenario. He wasn’t talking ...

As authorities search for victims of the flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, social media users are spreading false claims that the ...

The accurate distribution of chromosomes in an oocyte is essential for the correct transmission of genetic information to the next generation. Now, researchers from Kyushu University have demonstrated ...

A picture of a mouse MII stage eggs with the location of chromosomes (green) and the distribution of the histone modification H3K4me3 (purple). The team confirmed that H3K4me3 was significantly ...

Nucleosomes--which are composed of histone proteins (purple) wrapped in strands of DNA (green)--appear to regulate gene activity via inherent biophysical properties. For decades, scientists have known ...

Histone modification is an epigenetic mechanism that enables fine-tuning of gene expression. Mutation or dysregulation of proteins associated with histone modification (called “writers,” “erasers,” ...