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    EpiCenter publication: early mammalian germ cells are highly sensitive to environmental exposures
    • Oct 6, 2021

    EpiCenter publication: early mammalian germ cells are highly sensitive to environmental exposures

    In mammalian embryos, the early germ cells, termed Primordial Germ Cells, undergo a highly specialized differentiation program associated...
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    EpiCenter publication: How do you define epigenetics?
    • Oct 6, 2021

    EpiCenter publication: How do you define epigenetics?

    Epigenetic concepts are fundamentally shaped by a legacy of negative definition, often understood by what they are not. Epimutation and...
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    EpiCenter publication: What Is Lost in the Weismann Barrier?
    • Oct 6, 2021

    EpiCenter publication: What Is Lost in the Weismann Barrier?

    In this publication, we revisit the long-standing view that info rmation can only move from the germline to the soma and not the other...
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    EpiCenter publication: "Epigenetics in the Public Sphere"
    • Oct 30, 2019

    EpiCenter publication: "Epigenetics in the Public Sphere"

    This article aims to promote an open-minded and interdisciplinary dialogue between the public discourse on epigenetics and the current...
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    • Aug 25, 2019

    Vulnerability of Germ Cells: Ethics in the Time of Epigenetics

    The Weismann barrier is not as impervious as previously thought—this is what epidemiological and animal studies in epigenetics suggest....
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    • Aug 25, 2019

    Epigenetics and the Public Sphere

    Epigenetics has sometimes been described as a “buzzword” or a “fashion.” A quick look on the web suggests that epigenetics is, indeed,...
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    • Jul 23, 2019

    EpiCenter publication: "Environmental Politics of Reproduction"

    What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and cultural valences are increasingly...
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    • Jan 8, 2019

    Histone Modifications: Epigenetic Mediators of Environmental Exposure Memory

    How organisms retain a memory of ancestral environmental exposure is a phenomenon that is still poorly understood. Recently published...
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    Organisms remember ancestral environmental chemical exposure
    • May 22, 2018

    Organisms remember ancestral environmental chemical exposure

    In this new study, Camacho and colleagues reveal that exposure to the plastic chemical Bisphenol A causes a transgenerational impact on...
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    • Dec 12, 2017

    New evidence of transgenerational impact of ancestral obesogen exposure

    Bruce Blumberg and colleagues describe how exposure to the obesogen tributyltin (TBT), an antifouling agent added to paint, alters the...
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    • Nov 1, 2017

    Ancient viral DNA mimics cellular components to become inherited

    A paper recently published in Current Biology examines how some mobile element in the genomes of animals have the ability to mimic...
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