DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there are things beyond the DNA sequence,” says Xiaoqi Feng, a plant geneticist at ...

One way cells can control the activities of their genes is by adding small chemical modifications to the DNA that determine which genes are turned on or off. Methyl groups are one of these chemical ...

A live C. elegans animal with the mitochondria in its nervous system decorated with red and green fluorescent proteins. “Mitochondrial DNA is essential for cell function,” Dr Hahn said. “But as we age ...

Building on their pioneering work on epigenetics of aging and transposable elements, researchers at Eötvös Loránd University have made breakthrough in understanding the molecular mechanisms of aging.