Exercise in fathers may do more than boost their own health; it can pass endurance and metabolic benefits to their children ...

New research suggests the long-term effects of COVID could be more devastating than previously thought and could even damage ...

Epigenetics shows how your lifestyle and environment can influence your child's health. This article explains the basics of ...

Obesity before pregnancy, not just during, may shape a child’s brain and raise the risk of autism spectrum disorder, a new study has found. Epigenetic changes in eggs triggered gene shifts linked to ...

Researchers from the Cancer Epigenetics group led by Dr. Manel Esteller at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute and Dr. Aurora Pujol, from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute ...

A new study shows that a father’s COVID-19 infection before conception can alter sperm and affect brain development of ...

The health of mothers during pregnancy has long been known to play a role in the lifelong mental and physical health of ...

A brief history of the term and concept epigenetics / Brian K. Hall -- Heuristic reductionism and the relative significance of epigenetic inheritance in evolution / James Griesemer -- The epigenetics ...

Studies reveal that while 70 to 80% of a child's potential height is inherited, the remaining 20 to 30% is influenced by lifestyle, which parents can positively affect. "While of course it's in your ...