EpiGenie FeaturesJanuary 10, 2009EpiGenie Features provide Insights into emerging trends, or sometimes just share technical tips from the experts in our community. View Features >>>
Latest Epigenetics HeadlinesJanuary 10, 2009Ever get that feeling that you forgot something? Well maybe you did, but it doesn’t have to be recent epigenetics research if you scope out our Headlines each week. That’s because we comb through all kinds of RSS feeds, email alerts, and reader feedback to bring you routine highlights from labs all around the world. […]
Bisulfite Sequencing the “Other” Nucleic Acid: Methylated RNADecember 16, 2008What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, so why shouldn’t bisulfite sequencing be used to study RNA cytosine methylation? Until recently, the harsh reaction conditions required for bisulfite deamination were considered detrimental to RNA stability. However, Matthias Schaefer and colleagues developed an RNA bisulfite sequencing procedure that reproducibly and quantitatively detected cytosine […]
To Code or Not to Code…Is that the Question?December 10, 2008In the past few years, ncRNAs have progressed from interesting anomalies to what some researchers think constitute the majority of the mammalian transcriptome. However, as reviewed by John Mattick and coworkers at the University of Queensland and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (both in Australia), it’s increasingly difficult to distinguish coding from noncoding RNAs […]
Let It SnoDecember 2, 2008It’s December, the time of year when much of the States is blanketed in a frosty mantle of the white stuff. But as recently reported in Molecular Cell, the ACA45 RNA appears to have pulled the ultimate snow job. Nikolaus Rajewsky, Gunter Meister, and colleagues revealed that ACA45, which was previously thought to function exclusively […]