Findings help decipher mechanisms through which ‘forever chemicals’ cause disease, aiding in treating health problems

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Genes and society shape each other. This comic, based on our Nature Human Behaviour article, shows how social inequality leaves genetic traces — and how social structures and genetics are linked acros...

In the classical twin design, the assumption that the additive genetic (A) and shared environment (C) variance components are uncorrelated may not hold. If there is positive AC covariance, the C compo...

Abstract. Disentangling genotype × environment (G×E) controls of flowering time requires phenotypes that link molecular regulation, developmental physiolog

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EPIGENETICS AND ITS ROLE IN DISEASES: DECODING THE MOLECULAR LAYER BEYOND DNA 🧬 What if your DNA isn't your destiny? Imagine a biological layer so responsive that it records your environment, diet, s...

Study explores the relative contributions of genetics and environmental factors to aging and premature mortality. It highlights how the exposome—lifetime environmental exposures—shapes disease risks, ...

The widespread occurrence of microplastics (MP) and nanoplastics (NP) in the environment is commonly thought to negatively impact living organisms; however, there remains a considerable lack of unders...

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Etiologies of neurodevelopmental disorders involve genes and environment however their interactions are understudied. Rett Syndrome (RTT) is an X-linked, dominant neurodevelopmental disorder caused by...

The key to many diseases is to be found in our DNA. But it is rarely a single mutated gene that makes us sick; it is a combination of different genes and environment. Wallenberg Scholar Tuuli Lappalai...

Genomic selection has revolutionized plant breeding by dramatically accelerating the pace of genetic improvement. By utilizing genome-wide markers, it allo

Julian Huxley is remembered as the author of his landmark 1942 Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Nowadays, however, he is criticized for having reduced biology to the selection of genes. Some have nevertheless suggested that Huxley’s biological views were more expansive—including rather than excluding issues regarding development or environment. In this paper, using hitherto unexamined sources, I show that Huxley’s developmental understanding of animal characters was rooted in his education at Oxford in the early 20th century. From embryologically and physiologically trained Oxford teachers, he learned to see characters as things that could not be predicted from the cell’s physico-chemical properties. Characters arose anew through dynamic interactions between parts. Huxley and his teachers labeled these as “epigenetic” processes that integrated multiple cross-pollinating causes such as heredity and development. After briefly exploring Huxley’s understanding of character development, I show how we can get to grips with Huxley’s biological views by exploring the context of his education at Oxford from 1906 to 1909. I then show how Huxley received and used these ideas, before I illustrate how they played an important role in his academic and socio-political work.