DNA Methylation Provides New Insight into the Missing Heritability of ALSMarch 31, 2022The devastating and fatal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has an estimated heritability rate of around 50%, suggesting that a considerable portion of disease risk derives from environmental and lifestyle risk factors that can leave their mark on the epigenome. Can DNA methylation analysis provide new insight into the missing heritability of ALS? In […]
Welcome to the Jungle! N4-acetyldeoxycytosine is a Wild New DNA Modification Identified in Plants and Detected in HumansMarch 14, 2022It’s time to welcome a new DNA modification to the epigenetic jungle! A collection of more than seventeen modifications have been spotted in the wilds of genomic DNA; however, only the biological effects of the prevalent 5-methyldeoxycytosine (5mC) (and its oxidated family members), along with N6-methyldeoxyadenosine (6mA) have been explored in any depth. Do other […]
CUT&Tag Launches to the Final Frontier: Spatial Epigenomic Profiling of Histone ModificationsMarch 14, 2022Space: the final frontier – CUT&Tag has just voyaged where no next-generation sequencing method has gone before to bring forth spatially-resolved histone modification profiles of intact mouse tissues! An expeditionary force led by Rong Fan (Yale University) combined in situ cleavage under targets and tagmentation (CUT&Tag) chemistry, microfluidic deterministic barcoding, and next-generation sequencing to develop […]
Webinar: Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) Workshop – Dr. Toryn PoolmanFebruary 28, 2022If you’re new to chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), or you’re thinking about giving it a try, you will want to take the time to watch this webinar first! Our friends at Proteintech put together an excellent workshop led by Dr. Toryn Poolman at University College London that covers a ton of tips and tricks that will […]
“Is this the real-life? Is this just fantasy?” – CultureAGE Shows How In Vitro Studies Reflect In Vivo Epigenetic AgingFebruary 21, 2022Profiling epigenetic aging with in vitro cell models may allow for a deeper understanding of the difficult-to-decipher in vivo process, but only if one truly reflects the other; this leaves us wondering: “Is this the real-life? Is this just fantasy?” In their epigenetic rock opera, bohemians from the lab of Morgan Levine (Yale School of […]
