Your family might be a bit bigger than you realised. All blue-eyed people descend from a single human who lived around 10,000 years ago, scientists believe.

Do you have blue eyes? We talked to experts to discover curious facts about baby blues. Like, are all blue-eyed people ...

A gene regulatory network is a set of genes, or parts of genes, that interact with each other to control a specific cell function. Gene regulatory networks are important in development, ...

Gene silencing describes the epigenetic regulation of a gene, at the level of transcription or translation, to prevent gene expression. Mechanisms include DNA methylation, histone modification and ...

DNA methylation involves adding a methyl group to DNA, which may influence gene expression and affect health aspects like childhood development and aging. Lifestyle factors, especially diet, may ...