How to Use epigenetic in a Sentence
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Then, the dog's epigenetic clock slows down as the dog ages, and begins to match up with humans again in its later years.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Nov. 2019
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When men get older, the epigenetic patterns in their sperm change.
—Judith Finlayson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
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The tests measure epigenetic patterns, or changes in the body that affect how genes behave.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
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Of all the tests, only myDNAge is based on Horvath’s epigenetic age clock.
—L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
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Perhaps putting on extra weight as you age triggers an epigenetic change to PIM3, rather than the other way around.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
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Our epigenetic clocks are dynamic, and our daily habits set the tick rate.
—Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2021
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Much of the research has focused on trauma, and whether epigenetic changes can be passed down from one generation to the next.
—Barbara Graham, Good Housekeeping, 9 Dec. 2022
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Mice, chimpanzees, wolves, and dogs, for example, all seem to have epigenetic clocks.
—Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 15 Nov. 2019
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The source of that variance is random silencing of genes, or epigenetic changes.
—Sharon Begley, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
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Analyses of the mice’s muscles, kidneys, and retinas suggest the cocktail reversed some of the epigenetic changes induced by the DNA breaks.
—Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 13 Jan. 2023
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But again, this is the sci-fi stuff, but the fact that it was done at all is so fascinating, again, from that epigenetic sort of body pattern perspective, right?
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
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Once epigenetic changes have occurred, some can be passed down to the next generation.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2024
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The serious injury to the eye caused epigenetic changes that resemble those that happen in old age.
—Sonya Collins, Fortune Well, 23 Feb. 2023
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The science of an epigenetic clock is now well-established.
—Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 19 Dec. 2019
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There are changes that occur — epigenetic, that means on top of our genes — that ultimately change the way that our cells express themselves.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2022
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The response was accompanied by epigenetic changes in its brain and sperm.
—Rachel Yehuda, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
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In epigenetic inheritance, the DNA code is not altered, but access to it is.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
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The addition of methyl tags to DNA bases, called methylation, is an epigenetic change that allows some genes to be transcribed while others are not.
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2011
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Bio-age is based on chemical marks, or epigenetic changes, that affect how genes are expressed.
—Matt Fuchs, Fortune Well, 14 May 2023
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By speeding the breakage, scientists were able to induce epigenetic changes that caused the mice to quickly lose their youthful vigor, and look and act older.
—Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
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With Horvath’s help, Levine developed a more advanced version of the epigenetic clock.
—Nick Heil, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2019
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But the actual genetic code had not changed, pointing the finger at an epigenetic cause.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010
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But epigenetic clocks estimate the age of the whole organism instead of an organ-specific age, Wyss-Coray says.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2023
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How can these epigenetic changes affect the traits that natural selection can act on — and therefore the future course of evolution?
—Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2017
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These changes—collectively called epigenetic changes—can then alter which proteins stick to the DNA, which will change the activity of nearby genes.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2018
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These are just things that slow down epigenetic damage and these other horrible hallmarks of aging.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 June 2022
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Research has found that epigenetic marks decorate mRNAs like Christmas lights on a fence.
—Ken Garber, Science | AAAS, 1 July 2019
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Though both Kellys were expected to experience epigenetic changes over the course of the study, the sheer number of transformations still took researchers by surprise.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
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The third platform is an epigenetic reprogramming platform spun out of David Sinclair’s lab.
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 14 June 2021
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The question is, what’s the purpose of these epigenetic modifications?
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
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