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Epigenetic changes are modifications to DNA that don’t change the underlying DNA sequence, like notes written on a recipe. They keep gene expression in check, affecting which genes are turned on or off.

A universally inherited epigenetic change among mammals, called DNA methylation, is wiped from the…

Yi Hua, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Mississippi, partnered with researchers at the University of Pittsburgh to study how ocular hypertension — elevated eye pressure — affects the eye.

“We wanted to see how intraocular pressure changes and deforms the blood vessels in the eye,” Hua…

University of Oklahoma researcher Matthew Potthoff, Ph.D., is the lead author of the study, which provides valuable insight about the mechanism of action of the hormone, which is a target for a new class of highly anticipated drugs that…

The study, published in the journal Nano Letters, explores a way to make high-intensity focused ultrasound less harmful to healthy tissues.

Oregon Health & Science University was the first hospital in Oregon to offer prostate cancer treatment using a robotic-assisted high-intensity focused ultrasound device….