Cells Socialize via miRNAs to Protect Against AtherosclerosisFebruary 16, 2012Nowadays, there are ton of ways to talk to your friends—phone, text, email, Facebook, Twitter, Skype…Now, an international team of researchers add to the growing literature showing that cells can talk to each other by sending out vesicles with miRNAs in them. This time, the cells are inside blood vessels, and the message is to […]
Master Your Bromodomain with Cayman Chemical’s BRD Assay KitsFebruary 10, 2012Bromodomains have had screening groups in their pocket ever since emerging as an attractive drug target. It’s been much easier for researchers to get excited about this class than it has for them to find potent and selective inhibitors of these closely related domains…until now. Cayman Chemical has developed a robust in vitro system for […]
Going Global with Zymo’s 5-hmC ELISA KitsFebruary 10, 2012Researchers that are looking to get started with 5-hmC analysis have plenty of options, but before diving into extensive regional or single-nucleotide 5-hmC profiling, it’s never a bad idea to take a step back and take in the bigger picture. Global 5-hmC detection is an extremely useful first step in 5-hmC analyses that can save […]
Epigenetics and TwinsFebruary 8, 2012Every summer outside Cleveland, Ohio identical twins congregate at the Twins Days Festival. Twins from all over join in on an assortment of activities over three days that resembles a massive Doublemint® gum commercial. It’s not just the twins that get stoked for the festival though. As was highlighted in a nice article in National […]
Big DNA Methylation Changes in Little TikesFebruary 7, 2012Kids grow and change so fast. One day, they’re learning to walk. The next day, they’re Twittering and texting while driving your car. In the first study to analyze age-related DNA methylation (DNAm) changes in pediatric blood samples, an all-star cast of researchers out of Emory University now report that DNAm changes more rapidly during […]