Sentences with word «epigeneticist»

It's turning out to be something of a surprise for epigeneticists, too, that it seems to work differently in the brain, that we can have these changes and that they can be both dynamic and lasting.»

At the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, epigeneticist David Monk is looking into an altogether different question inspired by the tiny Silver - Russell children: how imprinting might affect fetal growth in babies without the syndrome.

«The problem is, all of the studies we've done so far have been correlative,» says cancer epigeneticist Lanlan Shen, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who led the new study.

Your genes are not your destiny; epigeneticists study how genes can be turned off and on — and one major way is through food!

Italy About Blog The team from the EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit, brings together epigeneticists and neurobiologists, but also administrative staff, to explore the connections between genome, environment and neural function.

Epigeneticists have found that our cells carry a type of memory of the experiences of our ancestors — not only that, but 95 % of our genes aren't yet coded at birth, dependent on nurturing and the environment to determine their fate.

It is the best - studied epigenetic modification, mainly because tools have existed to study it, says Susan Clark, an epigeneticist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia.

By uncovering these hidden variations, researchers should be able to better explain the hard - to - find genetic components of diseases such as mental illnesses, says Randy Jirtle, an epigeneticist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

One caveat of the study is that the researchers did not control for the early life history of the adult macaques, even though many studies have shown that early life adversity can have lifelong effects on health, says Michael Kobor, an epigeneticist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who was not involved with the work.

Torrey, Yolken, and Sarven Sabunciyan, an epigeneticist at Johns Hopkins, are working to understand how endogenous retroviruses can wreak their havoc.

Stem cells are also of key interest to epigeneticists.

While turning off aging and fine - tuning the human genome are pretty awe - inspiring possibilities, epigeneticists are far more interested in discovering ways to treat epigenetic diseases.

Here, Bell and Spector argue that twin studies are «considerably more powerful discovery tools than studies on singletons» for the epigeneticist.