X inactivation turns off entire chromosomes, whereas imprinting turns off only specific genes. How do these processes work, and why do they often produce similar results? Upon examining their ...

Scientists at Cambridge have unveiled a fascinating mechanism where fetuses use a paternal gene to control the mother's ...

Researchers probe how gene imprinting affects the development of distinct species. By crossing two mouse species that normally do not interbreed, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers ...

Imprinted genes comprise a small subset of the genome whose epigenetic reprogramming in the germ line is necessary for subsequent normal embryonic development. This reprogramming and resetting of ...

Some of our genes can be expressed or silenced depending on whether we inherited them from our mother or our father. The ...

For example, DNA methylation modifies gene expression without altering the nucleotide sequence. A well-studied DNA methylation-based phenomenon is genomic imprinting (ie, genotype-independent ...

Can a kind of genetic favoritism explain why some people carry disease-causing mutations, but do not have a disease? | Genetics And Genomics ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that some CAR-T cells engineered to fight ...