EpiCenter publication: early mammalian germ cells are highly sensitive to environmental exposures
In mammalian embryos, the early germ cells, termed Primordial Germ Cells, undergo a highly specialized differentiation program associated...
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EpiCenter publication: How do you define epigenetics?
Epigenetic concepts are fundamentally shaped by a legacy of negative definition, often understood by what they are not. Epimutation and...
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EpiCenter publication: What Is Lost in the Weismann Barrier?
In this publication, we revisit the long-standing view that info rmation can only move from the germline to the soma and not the other...
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The Allard lab participates in the Beyond Genes conference!
This first edition of the Beyond Genes conference has been collaboratively organized by researchers, clinicians and research advocates,...
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EpiCenter publication: "Epigenetics in the Public Sphere"
This article aims to promote an open-minded and interdisciplinary dialogue between the public discourse on epigenetics and the current...
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Vulnerability of Germ Cells: Ethics in the Time of Epigenetics
The Weismann barrier is not as impervious as previously thought—this is what epidemiological and animal studies in epigenetics suggest....
EpiCenter publication: "Environmental Politics of Reproduction"
What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and cultural valences are increasingly...
Histone Modifications: Epigenetic Mediators of Environmental Exposure Memory
How organisms retain a memory of ancestral environmental exposure is a phenomenon that is still poorly understood. Recently published...
Collaboration between the EpiCenter and Science Po in Grenoble, France
The exciting collaboration focuses on the advances in the field of Toxico-Epigenomics and the scientific, industrial, and regulatory...
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The Allard Lab presenting at the "Epigenetic Inheritance: Impact for Biology and Society"
"Epigenetic Inheritance: Impact for Biology and Society" at ETH Zürich on Aug 26-28, 2019. https://www.epigenetic-inheritance-zurich.ethz...
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