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Stress makes us age faster but the effects can be reversed

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Stress makes us age faster but the effects can be reversed

Your biological age - a measure based on markers on your DNA, rather than your number of birthdays - can rise and fall in relation to stressful events

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One epigenome-editing injection could cut cholesterol level for years

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The parthenogenetic mouse and the offspring. The parthenogenetic mouse was generated by targeted epigenetic rewriting of multiple imprinting control regions. The parthenogenetic mouse exhibited normal reproductive performance as an adult.

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Mouse pups born from unfertilised eggs through genetic manipulation

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MRI has been used to reveal epigenetic changes in brain for first time

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Brain's movement control centre may have had key role in our evolution

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Drinking coffee appears to cause epigenetic changes to your DNA

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Drinking coffee appears to cause epigenetic changes to your DNA

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Hypersexual disorder linked to genes that regulate love hormone

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Hypersexual disorder linked to genes that regulate love hormone

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Epigenetic testing firms claim to help you live a healthier lifestyle

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Epigenetic testing firms claim to help you live a healthier lifestyle

You can now sign up to have your epigenome – the markers which control your genome – sequenced, but critics say the health benefits are not yet clear

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Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck's Revenge are genetic misfits

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Nicotine exposure in male mice may trigger ADHD in their offspring

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Mice eat too much food if their great grandmother did the same

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CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

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