A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception. Previous re...

In previous blog entries I shared research that showed that children and young people who were exposed to childhood trauma demonstrated biological changes wi...

Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role in hypertension, diabetes, arthritis -- and...

Of all the challenges that come with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the social difficulties are among the most devastating. Currently, there ...

Epigenetics is the study of how environments can switch your genes on or off. An intriguing study has identified key mechanisms of how the early experience ...