They have the same piercing eyes. The same color hair. One may be shy, while the other loves meeting new people. Discovering ...

Is our cancer the result of nature or nurture? Are we the victims of faulty DNA over which we have no control? Or of lifestyle and environmental factors that we can change? Or is there a third option?

New research from University of Virginia psychologists has found that "epigenetic clocks"—tools scientists use to estimate a person's biological age—can predict cognitive decline. The study, which ...

Few ideas in modern biology have captured the public imagination quite like epigenetics. The promise is seductive: chemical ...

When we think of identical twins, we often imagine mirror images — same face, same smile and perhaps even the same talents. But what surprises many is that these genetic carbon copies can have ...

Figure 2. Regression of Adult IQ residuals on Gen 2 DNAmAge for high and low SES groups. IQ residuals are derived from the regression of adult IQ on childhood IQ and childhood socioeconomic status.

By the end of the study the authors observed decreases in estimates of biological age - known as epigenetic aging clocks - in participants who ate a vegan diet but not among those that ate an ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition in which amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles accumulate in the brain. In addition to genetic factors, DNA damage and epigenetic ...

A new study on identical twins published on Sunday in the journal BMC Medicine found that eating a vegan diet for 8 weeks was linked to lower biological age measured by DNA methylation, compared to ...