It’s a Histone-Regulate-Histone World Out ThereJuly 9, 2013The central dogma has taken quite a beating thanks to epigenetics rule-bending ways. With all the cross talk and looping going on it’s hard to tell who’s the boss these days. In their recent review, Mahajan and Mahajan from the Moffit Cancer Centre in Florida discuss the implications of their latest finding (Nature Structural & […]
The Epigenetics of Stressed-Out PlantsJuly 2, 2013Stress is something that we’re all familiar with. A number of landmark studies on the effects of stress have been done in mammals. But it turns out that our cousins-from-another-ancestor don’t have dream lives either. Life is tough out there for a plant; you’re limited to one location where the conditions can change drastically over […]
A Great Start to RNA-Seq: Zymo Research’s RNA Clean & Concentrator™-5July 1, 2013With every high-tech advance in the methods used for RNA analysis , the need for extremely pure RNA input samples becomes even more crucial. The RNA Clean & Concentrator™-5 (RCC™-5) Kit from Zymo Research packs high-performance into a fast and easy format that enables even the most demanding methods, including RNA-Seq. RNA Clean and Concentrator™-5 […]
The Darkside of Epigenetic PlasticityJune 26, 2013Sure, genes get mutated in cancers, but the epigenome gets messed-up too. In fact, two researchers argue in a recent review that a “dysregulated epigenome” that’s too plastic and flexible could itself lead to cancer. Andrew Feinberg and Winston Timp, both from the Center for Epigenetics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, wrote the […]
Webinar: Lighting up the Dark Matter of the Genome – Unravelling the Roles of Non-Coding DNA in Disease and DevelopmentJune 26, 2013Dr. Marcel Dinger, PhD discusses some of the most recent findings that shed light on non-coding RNAs in the genome. **this webinar is no longer available** Abstract Approximately 98% of the human genome comprises noncoding DNA, the function of which is largely unknown. Intriguingly, more than 85% of single nucleotide polymorphisms identified to be associated […]
