The benefits of dietary fiber extend beyond digestive health, as dietary fiber-derived metabolites produced by gut microbiota ...

Epigenetic regulation comprises heritable changes in gene activity that do not alter the underlying DNA sequence, and plays a central role in orchestrating plant developmental programmes. Key ...

A recent review by Prof. Zhu Bing and Associate Professor Xiong Jun from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reveals how epigenetic regulation not only maintains gene ...

Epigenetic regulation by gut microbiota refers to the ways in which microbial communities in the intestine modulate the chemical marks on host DNA and histones, thereby shaping gene expression without ...

Cannabis Bioscience International Holdings, Inc. (OTCID: CBIH), a public company focused on cannabinoid biotechnology, ...

Epigenetics, a term coined by Conrad H. Waddington in the early 1940s, originally described the complex molecular pathways that govern how a genotype manifests as a phenotype. Over time, this ...

Butyrate, produced when gut bacteria ferment dietary fiber, was shown to influence immune-cell identity, trafficking, and ...

This review is designed by Dr. Yinglan Zhao and written by her PhD students Dr. Lei Tao and Yue Zhou (Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University).

The team of Professor Christof Niehrs at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, has discovered that a DNA modification called 5-formylcytosine (5fC) functions as an activating ...

An epigenetic "mechanostat" has been discovered that protects tooth-forming progenitor cells from mechanical stress and ...

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