Synthetic DNA Adds Storage Capacity to Genome EditingMay 9, 2014Just when you thought you’d mastered both your linguistic and scientific alphabets, it looks like it’s time to dust off the ol’ learning cap and re-learn your ATGCs because the two-base-pair genetic alphabet has just got some fancy new characters. A clever team from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla (California) have now expanded the inheritable […]
DNA Methylation and Diet: A Lot to Chew OnMay 7, 2014Just in time for Mother’s Day, a new published report finds that a mother’s diet at the conception of her child causes life-long epigenetic differences in the metastable epialleles of the child with “permanent phenotypic consequences”. While it may seem that the “you are what you eat” card has been played to death to explain […]
Non-coding RNAs Reveal How Stress Can Be InheritedMay 7, 2014Stress hits every one of us, like when the Heartbleed virus makes you have to go back and reset all of your online passwords. Recent evidence has already linked the DNA methylation and histone alterations left behind by stressful events to transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, but now, scientists from the Brain Research Institute in Switzerland have observed […]
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Going ChIP-less Yields More Insights on Histone Code CombosApril 29, 2014When it comes to studying chromatin structure and histone modifications, a new technique proves that sometime less really is more, ChIP-less that is. Antibodies for individual histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) have long been the star of chromatin technology, but PTMs often act in concert to form a dynamic histone code whose combinations can interfere with antibodies attempting to bind […]