In mammalian embryos, the early germ cells, termed Primordial Germ Cells, undergo a highly specialized differentiation program associated...

Epigenetic concepts are fundamentally shaped by a legacy of negative definition, often understood by what they are not. Epimutation and...

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...

This article aims to promote an open-minded and interdisciplinary dialogue between the public discourse on epigenetics and the current...

The Weismann barrier is not as impervious as previously thought—this is what epidemiological and animal studies in epigenetics suggest....

Epigenetics has sometimes been described as a “buzzword” or a “fashion.” A quick look on the web suggests that epigenetics is, indeed,...

What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and cultural valences are increasingly...

How organisms retain a memory of ancestral environmental exposure is a phenomenon that is still poorly understood. Recently published...

In this new study, Camacho and colleagues reveal that exposure to the plastic chemical Bisphenol A causes a transgenerational impact on...

Bruce Blumberg and colleagues describe how exposure to the obesogen tributyltin (TBT), an antifouling agent added to paint, alters the...

A paper recently published in Current Biology examines how some mobile element in the genomes of animals have the ability to mimic...