CpGenome™ Turbo Bisulfite Modification Kit: The Fastest Route from C to UDecember 2, 2010You don’t always need to take shortcuts to get where you need to be faster. Thanks to the CpGenome™ Turbo Bisulfite Modification Kit from Millipore, now you can get from C to U with your bisulfite conversion reactions faster than ever. Just think of what you’ll do with that extra time you’ll save. Bisufite Conversion […]
COLDAIR Kicks Off Histone Methylation Prep for WinterDecember 2, 2010As winter winds turn our noses into Rudolph lookalikes, flowering plants get busy at the epigenetic level. At the onset of winter, plants in temperate regions, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, undergo a process called vernalization where they prep to quickly flower once spring rolls back around. As Jae Bok Heo and Sibum Sung at the […]
Webinar: Chromatin Immunoprecipitation-Improved Approaches for the Analysis of Epigenetic Regulation at Single Loci and Genome-WideDecember 1, 2010This 50 minute presentation covers the basic concepts of ChIP and advances in technology, including genome-wide profiling. You’ll learn approaches to assay design, performance, and data analysis to help avoid the most common and some uncommon experimental pitfalls. Chromatin Biology Research and Development, EMD Millipore Presenter: John M. Rosenfeld, Ph.D. Format: Audio with Synchronized Slides, […]
H3K27ac Marks the Spot of Active EnhancersDecember 1, 2010News media always seem to focus on the negative . . . war, violence, men wearing kilts sans underwear through airport security lines on National Opt-Out Day. The same can be said about genetic elements that regulate transcription: the repressors seem to get all of the attention. Part of the reason is that enhancers are […]
Leukemia ALL Because of microRNA-125bNovember 30, 2010In a courtroom drama, sometimes the facts are so cut and dried that the defendant’s fate is all but sealed. New research from Marina Bousquet, a Lodish lab member at the Whitehead Institute, makes a strong case that miR-125b is essentially a smoking gun that causes leukemia. miR-125b is overexpressed in several different types of […]
