Twins Bridgette and Paula Powers have gone viral for the way they speak in unison, using the same gestures and words.
- Deputy Director, Twins Research Australia & Professor in Genetics and Cell Biology, Deakin University
Genes and environments almost always combine to influence our risk of diseases. Research in twins has helped us understand how.
Most common chronic diseases are the outcome of complex interactions between genetic, environmental and social risk factors, so a genetic risk score, on its own, isn’t much help.
Can you blame bad teeth on your genes? Here’s why the answer is not as simple as you might think.
A twins study shows that children born via IVF have similar epigenetic changes compared with those born naturally.
One of the big questions in autism research is whether autism is a single disorder or many different disorders that happen to present in the same way.
Overweight women have a higher risk of delivering biologically older babies who are are more susceptible to age-related conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes in later life.
There’s something in the air that actually has health benefits when you take time to walk among the plants and trees. What that is exactly is still being studied by scientists.
Epigenetics is increasingly used as a buzzword to sell pseudoscientific products, but the truth of epigenetics is even more interesting – and complex – than the quacks claim.
The epigenetic ‘musicians’ that play our genomes in different ways might help us understand the causes of autism.
As scientific researchers, we are often surprised by some of the assumptions made about us by those outside our profession. So we put together a list of common myths we and our colleagues have heard anecdotally…
Take a look at several domesticated mammal species and you might spot a number of similarities between them, including those cute floppy ears. The famous naturalist and evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin…
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