Partnership delivers first DNA methylation test for male fertility, enabling earlier, evidence-based fertility treatment decisions worldwide. By looking inside sperm at the gene function level, we ...

An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for gay couples or women with fertility problems to have children that ...

The rate that our heart or liver ages may differ from that of our immune or hormonal systems, and now it seems that a single ...

It is one of humanity’s ultimate scientific and technological quests, alongside putting a man on the moon and unlocking the ...

The method, known as EVOFLUx, uses natural fluctuations in DNA methylation as a kind of molecular “barcode” to reconstruct a ...

Scientists mapped brain development before birth, revealing DNA changes linked to autism and schizophrenia risk.

As global warming brings longer summers, people around the world are exposed to more dangerous heat. Find out what that could ...

Human fertility hinges on a delicate molecular ballet that begins even before birth. UC Davis researchers have uncovered how special protein networks safeguard chromosomes as eggs and sperm form, ...

The cumulative effect of social advantages across a lifetime—from parental warmth in childhood to friendship, community engagement and religious support in adulthood—may slow the biological processes ...

Cytosine DNA methylation is widespread in animal genomes and occurs predominantly at CG dinucleotides (mCG). While the roles of mCG, such as in genomic imprinting and genome stability, are well ...