Sea Snails Thank RNA-induced DNA Methylation for the Long-term Memories!May 16, 2018Forget everything you know about memories (!) because a new study has turned our knowledge regarding memory formation on its head by showing the ability to transfer memories from animal-to-animal! Current dogma states that learning-induced modifications of synaptic connections underlie the storage of our long-term memory (LTM); however, recent studies have suggested that neuron cell […]
C. elegans Histone Memory of a Tropical VacationMay 14, 2018Most of us wouldn’t mind taking a tropical vacation, and we’re all likely to snap a few selfies to capture vacation memories. While the humble Caenorhabditis elegans may lack the latest phone and accompanying selfie stick, it makes up for it with epigenetic memory of warm weather vacations. More specifically, worms raised at higher temperatures undergo […]
Snord116 Keeps DNA Methylation’s Circadian Rhythm Ticking in the BrainMay 10, 2018Sunrise, Sunset. The tempo of a day can quickly pass us by while filling our brain with all epigenetics has to offer. But whether our brains are aware of it or not, with each sunrise and sunset comes a rhythmic genome-wide DNA methylation profile. To gain insight into exactly what makes our brain’s rhythmically tick, […]
EpiTOF Histone Modification Analysis Reveals How Aging Cells Grow Apart!May 9, 2018Some say that all babies look the same – small, warm bags of tears and mayhem – with significant differences only appearing as we grow older and grow apart from our newborn brethren (and sistren!). Our burgeoning epigenome may react to aging in a very similar manner, with age-related losses and gains of DNA methylation combining […]
Intergenerational Transmission of Dad’s Diet: Dnmt2 Provides a Big Payload of Small RNAsMay 4, 2018Dnmt2 represents the lesser-known child of the DNA-methyltransferase family, but not because of any lack of pizazz or stage presence, but perhaps due to the lack of detectable DNA-cytosine methylation activity when compared to its more well-known brethren (Dnmt1 and Dnmt3). Instead of modifying DNA, Dnmt2 plays a big role in transfer RNA (tRNA) methylation […]
