Imprinted Genes and Fetal Growth with Dr Gudrun MooreSeptember 8, 2011Dr. Gudrun Moore discusses her studies of key genes involved with fetal growth and their regulation. This short take was shot during a break at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility held in March 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Imprinted Genes and Fetal Growth As I am fundamentally interested in looking […]
Early-Life Stress, Epigenetics, and Disease with Dr Patrick McGowanSeptember 8, 2011Dr. Patrick McGowan discusses how stresses early in life can potentially impact epigenetic mechanisms and disease susceptibility. This short take was shot during a break at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility held in March 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Environmental Influences on Developmental Programming Well epigenetics is really central to the […]
NCBI NIH Tools for Surfing the EpigenomeAugust 31, 2011Massive epigenome mapping projects have led to a deluge of data that eager epigeneticists can’t wait dive into, but it’s not quite that simple. It’s no easy feat to learn about the best places to download, view or manipulate epigenomic data, much less understand the tidal wave of information once you’ve found it. It’s all […]
EpiGenie Reviews Epigenetics: A Reference ManualAugust 31, 2011Epigenetics is such a young and expanding field that it’s tough to find a lot of good reference material out there. And what you can find is usually scattered all across any number of places on the World Wide Web. That’s why we are so stoked to see the new epigenetics text, Epigenetics: A Reference […]
Quick Interviews from Keystone Symposia’s Meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease SusceptibilityAugust 25, 2011We set out to provide a few nice interviews with some of the outstanding cast of researchers that presented at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility last spring, but one thing led to another, and well…here they are now. Apologies for the delay, but we think you’ll agree it was worth the […]
RNA Pol II Calls the Shots in Random Monoallelic ExpressionAugust 15, 2011Just because two things ultimately do the same thing doesn’t mean they’re equivalent. Take Facebook and MySpace, for example. Researchers from the University of Washington say that imprinting and random allele-specific expression have two very different mechanisms, even though the outcome—only one of the two alleles of a gene is translated—is the same. H3K9me3 and […]
EpiGenie Stem Cell Epigenetics ReviewAugust 4, 2011We’re big fans of stem cell research, the vast potential it represents and the close connection it has to epigenetics. Apparently we aren’t alone either, judging by the avalanche of top-notch papers that regularly cross our monitors. We’ve even give serious consideration to launching another site just to be able cover the area properly (StemGenie, […]
A Beginner’s Guide to ChIPAugust 3, 2011Do you lay awake at night reflecting on how much you want to get started with ChIP, but stressed that you don’t know where to start? Who doesn’t? Good thing for you, our friends at Abcam have come to your rescue, so you can rest at ease counting sheep instead. Abcam just published a killer […]
Targeting Brd4 Fends Off Acute Myeloid LeukemiaAugust 3, 2011Chromatin mods should be good drug targets for cancer therapies, but sort of like Facebook’s privacy policy, cancer epigenetics is so complex that no one completely understands all the nuances. So instead of spending time on the usual epigenetic suspects, researchers at Cold Spring Harbor in New York kept an open mind and performed an […]
Top Five Reasons To Automate Your Epigenetic WorkflowAugust 3, 2011The word “automation” conjures up images of the future complete with robot butlers and flying cars, but the reality is that automation is here now, and it can change your everyday life in a big way. In the lab, automated instruments have already impacted how we use common techniques like PCR and sequencing. Today new […]
