Getting Personal with Your Blood Methylome: Continuous DNA Methylation Monitoring Anticipates DiabetesNovember 19, 2018In our futuristic world, personalization is a standard. While your watch, phone, and laptop, may be accentuated by personalizations that keep tabs on you, your methylome may not be so lucky. Thankfully, the research group of Michael Snyder has broadcast some insight of the most personal nature from their lab in the city of the […]
How a Histone Deacetylase-Regulated “Kiss” Controls the Timing of Sexual DevelopmentNovember 19, 2018“It started out with a kiss. How did it end up like this? It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss” – The Killers clearly didn’t foresee the consequences of a meeting of lips; however, a new study into the links between nutrition and mammalian sexual development now suggests that a histone deacetylase-regulated […]
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Tri-CNovember 13, 2018It’s easy to think that at this point, science has it all figured out. We’ve developed genome-wide techniques to look at chromosome structure in many different contexts: from mapping chromatin interactions (Hi-C), to observing DNA-RNA interactions (SPRITE), and even identifying higher-order DNA structures (GAM). Unfortunately, none of these techniques have the resolution to look at […]
Smooth as Silc1: A ncRNA Lnc to Nerve RegenerationNovember 6, 2018When it comes to nerve damage, the mammalian peripheral nervous system (PNS) is arms and legs ahead of the central nervous system (CNS) in its ability to regenerate damaged neurons. While neuroscientists already knew that the PNS has an innate ability to express pro-regenerative transcription factors after injury, a new paper has the nerve to […]
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! – Study of Extra-Telomeric Roles of hTR Uncovers Histone mRNA-Mediated Telomere Homeostasis!November 6, 2018When it comes to our telomeres, we are often left with the feeling that a little bit extra is better. However, a new article which just crossed our paths had a little bit of “extra” that turned our heads: a study of the extra-telomeric functions of the human telomerase RNA component (hTR). hTR contains a […]