Your lifstile impacts the risk of type 2 diabetes

People with type 2 diabetes have epigenetic changes in their DNA that healthy individuals do not have. This has been shown in a major survey by researchers at Lund University. The researchers also found a large number of genes that contribute to reduced insulin production because of these epigenetic changes....

Do you know your epigenome?

Every person is born with a unique set of genes that they inherit from their parents. The only exception is identical twins, who are born with identical DNA sequences. With the years, even twins develop increasing differences in appearance and in the diseases they get. Why is this? The answer...