Nutritional Influences on Developmental Epigenetics
In the Waterland lab we are passionate about understanding nutritional influences on mammalian developmental epigenetics, to gain a better picture of how nutrition during embryonic, fetal, and early postnatal life causes lifelong changes in gene expression, metabolism, and risk of disease.
More than 15 years after scientists first mapped the human genome, researchers at the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center at vlog of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital have determined a unique fraction of the genome that scientists should focus on. Their report, which provides a “treasure map” to accelerate research in epigenetics and human disease, was published today in
An international group of researchers has discovered a new phenomenon that occurs in identical twins: independent of their identical genes, they share an additional level of molecular similarity that influences their biological characteristics.