Starve a mouse and its aging processes slow to a crawl. Same thing goes for yeast and beast alike –… [ more ]
How You Are Conceived Makes a Difference in Your Epigenetics
Posted July 22, 2009
Ahem! What we mean is that being conceived in a dish versus the natural way can affect the methylation of… [ more ]
CLIPped Mouse Testes Reveal Novel Class of Small RNAs
Posted July 16, 2009
Fish with germ cell-specific bait, and you get a new class of RNA. U Penn researchers CLIPped (Cross-Linked and ImmunoPrecipitated)… [ more ]
NIH Digs into the Diet Movement with New Epigenetics Research Grants
Posted July 16, 2009
Nowadays it seems like everybody’s on some kind of a diet. Until recently, even public funding for epigenetic research had… [ more ]
Differentiation Got Your Chromatin in a Bind?
Posted July 8, 2009
Euchromatin could be what gives stem cells their stemness. A screen for factors that both reduce embryonic stem (ES) cells’… [ more ]
