Are you constantly checking your Twitter/Instagram/Reddit feeds for the newest memes and best cat videos to share for the most likes? Well, don’t spend too much time stressing over your social media status; especially if you are a rhesus macaque, because new research suggests your immune cells might take a major epigenetic hit if you’re […]
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New “Recipe” Combines Histone Acetylation, Telomeres, and Mitochondria in a Delicious Scientific Dish!
Assembling tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil into the formidable Insalata Caprese is a straightforward affair and a quick shake, and pour can make tequila, triple sec, and lime juice combine into the sublime margarita cocktail. However, no one has yet managed to fit mitochondrial dysfunction, telomere attrition, and histone acetylation into a dish of data worthy […]
How a Histone Deacetylase-Regulated “Kiss” Controls the Timing of Sexual Development
“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-C
It’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 […]
Histonagram: C. elegans Sperm Carry a Histone Memory of Spermatogenesis and Oogenesis
While Instagram may have replaced the Polaroid, some age-old memories just can’t be shaken. Thankfully, the sperm epigenome of C. elegans has conjured up the latest social media trend, the histonagram: a histone based memory of spermatogenesis and oogenesis that shapes offspring fertility. Although C. elegans differ from us humans in that they don’t make use […]