At the risk of starting a nomenclature controversy, we prefer to term our field of interest "epigenomics." Although the terms "epigenetics" and "epigenesis" have scientific and historical ...

We are now entering the third decade of the 21st Century, and, especially in the last years, the achievements made by ...

How can this be? The answer lies in epigenomics. The human genome contains approximately 25,000 genes that encode all the proteins and other molecules that make up an individual. The epigenome is ...

Robin Cristofari's research group at the Institute of Biotechnology focuses on the way animals age, and on how food availability, obesity, lifestyle and environmental conditions can make them grow old ...