How to Use epigenetic in a Sentence

epigenetic

adjective

• 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
• When men get older, the epigenetic patterns in their sperm change.
  — Judith Finlayson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• The tests measure epigenetic patterns, or changes in the body that affect how genes behave.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• Of all the tests, only myDNAge is based on Horvath’s epigenetic age clock.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Our epigenetic clocks are dynamic, and our daily habits set the tick rate.
  — Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Mice, chimpanzees, wolves, and dogs, for example, all seem to have epigenetic clocks.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 15 Nov. 2019
• The source of that variance is random silencing of genes, or epigenetic changes.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Once epigenetic changes have occurred, some can be passed down to the next generation.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2024
• The serious injury to the eye caused epigenetic changes that resemble those that happen in old age.
  — Sonya Collins, Fortune Well, 23 Feb. 2023
• The science of an epigenetic clock is now well-established.
  — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 19 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The response was accompanied by epigenetic changes in its brain and sperm.
  — Rachel Yehuda, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
• In epigenetic inheritance, the DNA code is not altered, but access to it is.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Bio-age is based on chemical marks, or epigenetic changes, that affect how genes are expressed.
  — Matt Fuchs, Fortune Well, 14 May 2023
• 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
• With Horvath’s help, Levine developed a more advanced version of the epigenetic clock.
  — Nick Heil, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2019
• But the actual genetic code had not changed, pointing the finger at an epigenetic cause.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010
• Smoking, the study found, seemed to have long-term epigenetic effects on the immune system’s two major forms of protection: the innate response and the adaptive response.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These are just things that slow down epigenetic damage and these other horrible hallmarks of aging.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 June 2022
• Research has found that epigenetic marks decorate mRNAs like Christmas lights on a fence.
  — Ken Garber, Science | AAAS, 1 July 2019
• Much of epigenetic work relies on more invasive methods, like drawing blood or taking tissue samples.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2024
• Work from Johns Hopkins’ Jenkins-Lord published last year also found that higher neighborhood deprivation was linked to epigenetic changes and lowered expression of key genes in breast cancer.
  — Angus Chen, STAT, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024