Active Motif MeDIP-Seq Services Will Put You On the Right MethylPath™April 17, 2012Let’s say you want to get the ball rolling for studies on a new disease. You know you want to search for any important changes in methylation patterns; but with a whole genome worth of ground to cover, how do you decide where to look first? Active Motif now offers the MethylPath™ MeDIP-Seq Service that […]
Recorded NIH Webcast with Dr. Randy Jirtle: Epigenetics-How Genes and Environment InteractApril 17, 2012The interplay between epigenetics and the environment is one of many fascinating research areas of epigenetics. If you were lucky enough to attend Keystone Symposia’s Meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility last spring, you were fortunate enough to hear from some of the world’s top researchers leading the way to a better understanding of […]
Colon Cancer Signs on the Dotted Line with Epigenomic Enhancer SignatureApril 16, 2012Handwriting experts say that someone’s signature reveals a lot about their personality. Whether these analyses are “scientific” is debatable, but researchers in Ohio and New Hampshire have evidence that they’ve identified a signature of enhancer histone modifications that points to colon cancer. Mono- and dimethylated H3K4 marks many classes of enhancers, so the team did […]
Tackling the Dimensions of Chromatin via 3C with Dr. Job DekkerApril 12, 2012Dr. Job Dekker discusses trends that he sees in chromatin structural studies, Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C), and bringing a multidisciplinary approach into the lab to better understand chromosomes. This interview took place at the Keystone Symposia’s Epigenomics and Chromatin Dynamics joint meeting in January, 2012. This video was brought to you by epigenetics supporters […]
ChIP & Bisulfite-Seq Cut Through Chromatin, DNA Methylation ChatterApril 4, 2012There are two sides to every story. Maybe even more if you ask a lawyer. So it only makes sense that two epigenetic mechanisms like chromatin and DNA methylation would each have something to say about the genomic regions they regulate. Two new methods each combine ChIP and bisulfite sequencing in order to cut through […]