Human Transgenerational Responses with Dr Marcus PembreySeptember 9, 2011Dr. Marcus Pembrey provides a nice background on his experiences with imprinting and how it might provide a means for transgenerational adaptation. This short take was shot during a break at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility held in March 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Interview Transcript I’m a chemical geneticist, […]
Imprinted Genes and Fetal Growth with Dr Gudrun MooreSeptember 8, 2011Dr. Gudrun Moore discusses her studies of key genes involved with fetal growth and their regulation. This short take was shot during a break at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility held in March 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Imprinted Genes and Fetal Growth As I am fundamentally interested in looking […]
Early-Life Stress, Epigenetics, and Disease with Dr Patrick McGowanSeptember 8, 2011Dr. Patrick McGowan discusses how stresses early in life can potentially impact epigenetic mechanisms and disease susceptibility. This short take was shot during a break at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility held in March 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Environmental Influences on Developmental Programming Well epigenetics is really central to the […]
Biocomputers Use miRNA Profiles to ID and Kill Cancer CellsSeptember 7, 2011Computers for your cells? Sounds like the plot to a Star Trek episode, but researchers report that they’ve developed a biocomputer that can figure out if a cell is cancerous and destroy it by triggering apoptosis —all by detecting miRNA levels, potentially leading to much more targeted cancer therapies than what’s available now. The researchers […]
Tap into Tissues with Millipore’s Magna ChIP™ G Tissue KitSeptember 1, 2011Henrietta Lacks and Chinese hamster ovaries have all spawned cell lines that are cornerstones of biological research, but sometimes the chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) answers you’re looking for can’t be found in the flasks of cultured cells. Studying chromatin and histone modifications in animal materials provides a snapshot of the actual, region specific, physiological conditions of […]
