EpiGenie Review: Environmental Links to Epigenetics and CancerOctober 27, 2011If our daily environment can lead to cancer, and it can also alter our epigenetics, then it only makes sense that there is a connection between all three things. Here are the articles EpiGenie has written about showing the evidence linking environmental factors, and epigenetic mechanisms together with cancer. Environmental – Epigenetic Link to Cancer […]
SIRTainty™ is Key to Trustworthy HDAC DetectionOctober 26, 2011There aren’t too many things that you can be sure about these days, but if you’re studying class III HDACs, aka sirtuins, then getting a little SIRTainty™ is now as easy as ordering a kit. The SIRTainty™ Class III HDAC Assay is a new assay, with novel patent pending technology, designed to measure sirtuin activity […]
Epigenetic Fountain of Youth Found in Worms?October 26, 2011We recently came across a hot new article that even the mainstream media has been all over. Stanford University researchers found that longevity can be passed down through generations without using DNA sequence to do it. The study found that C. elegans worms with certain histone modifications leading to increased longevity were able to pass that long […]
RNA Demethylation in ObesityOctober 19, 2011In news more surprising than the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement, researchers have unearthed a novel mechanism in which RNA demethylation is mediated by, of all things, the obesity related protein FTO. FTO is a well-established target of obesity and diabetes researchers, but its function has so far been elusive. At least it […]
Shhh! RNAi Silences Yeast Heterochromatin As Cells DivideOctober 18, 2011It’s too bad that a little RNA interference (RNAi) won’t quiet down those noisy neighbors, but apparently it does the job quite well on yeast heterochromatin. Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor report that RNAi helps promote the silencing of heterochromatin during DNA replication (“S” phase), and they figured out how it all goes down in […]
