You Are What Your Father Ate, TooDecember 30, 2010Several recent studies have shown that Mom’s diet at conception or during pregnancy can affect the epigenetics of her offspring. Now it’s Dad’s turn to share some of the responsibility as well. A new Cell paper by Oliver Rando at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and colleagues found that male mice fed a low-protein […]
Small Pores Provide Smoother 5-hmC ExperienceDecember 16, 2010Small pores aren’t just highly sought after in the cosmetics industry. They can really lend a hand in smoothing out the rougher epigenetics experimental challenges researchers face nowadays. Just ask Dr. Meni Wanunu and Marija Drndic at the University of Pennsylvania, along with colleagues from New England Biolabs, Boston University, and Temple University, who put […]
Enriching 5-hmC Detection with SugarDecember 15, 2010In today’s more health conscious world, we’ve seen a surge in organic-everything. Enriching anything with sugar is a definite no-no. Good thing researchers play by their own rules. A University of Chicago research team led by Chuan He recently enriched the latest entrant to DNA methylation marks, 5-hmC, by enriching with glucose in a really […]
Behind the Scenes Histone and DNA Methylation Regulation Tricks RevealedNovember 30, 2010Diehard fans cinema aren’t satisfied by just watching a movie; they want to know everything about it, including how those amazing special effects are pulled off. In much the same way, scientists at the University of Bergen in Norway noticed extensive gene expression reprogramming in their experiments with pre-cancerous prostate cells and wanted to get […]
Homocysteine Gives Sneak-Peak into Low Birth WeightsNovember 19, 2010Were you a tiny tot or a tubby toddler? If so, your mom’s folic acid intake could be to blame. As those of us in the U.S. prepare to indulge in a Thanksgiving Day gorge-fest, here’s more proof that we are what our mothers ate. A recent study by William Farrell and colleagues in the […]