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Reasons for easy weight gain: Obesity has 'memory' and retains mechanisms in cells
Research reveals a molecular mechanism in fat tissue that makes people more likely to regain weight. The discovery helps explain
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Cancer
Prospects for the treatment of patients with difficult-to-diagnose breast tumors
After performing genomic methylation in a group of patients, the team found that breast phyllodes tumors had unique methylation compared to normal breast tissue and that…
Health
American scientists happen to reverse the aging process
While trying to find a way to regenerate the thymus, scientists at the University of California (USA) accidentally found a solution that not only reduces the aging rate…
Discover science
Why are most people right-handed and only 10% left-handed?
Since the 1980s, scientists have found that our left-handed or right-handed are more likely to be identified before we are born.
Discover science
Robots evolved by exchanging genetic materials for generations
'Our work is the first to show the epigenetic factor used in improving the physical system of robots', scientists say.
Discover science
The diet of pregnant women increases the risk of asthma in children
Pregnant maternal mice have a diet rich in methyl-containing additives, such as folic acid, and pups will have more respiratory allergies than mice with maternal mice th…
Biology
Ants will discover the aging process in humans
Dr. Danny Reinberg, of New York University, was awarded the ants' epigenetics research to help determine the impact of lifestyle and environment on genes.
Medicine - Health
Stress hormones alter brain tissue in mice
This new study only reports epigenetic changes with a single stress response gene called FKBP5, linked to depression, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Medicine - Health
Memory is also passed down through generations
Animal studies show that the behavior of an individual can be influenced by events that occurred in previous generations and passed down through a form of genetic memory.
Medicine - Health
Stress can be transmitted through the genes?
Thanks to the scanning of DNA in eggs and sperm of mice, the researchers found external factors such as smoking, dieting, starvation, mental illness and fluctuating chil…
Medicine - Health
Control the sperm's gene
Scientists at the Australian National University have discovered the mechanism of activating genes involved in differentiating cells. Thus, it is possible to cure infert…
Medicine - Health
Mystery from twins
Born with eggs, there are identical DNA sets, but not all identical twins and eggs. Why is there such a phenomenon?