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miRNA Dysregulation Can Be a Real Heart-Stopper

March 11, 2011

It’s been pretty well established that miRNAs really get their hands dirty with various affairs of the heart like development and function (not romance and relationships). So it stands to reason that when things start to go haywire with the heart, like a myocardial infarction (MI), that miRNA expression gets out of whack, too. Scientists […]

EpiGenie Interview: Dr. Randy Jirtle on Environment Epigenomics

March 10, 2011

We caught up with Dr. Randy Jirtle to hear more about his transition from nuclear engineer to imprinting guru and chief publicist for Agouti mice. Dr. Jirtle is a co-organizer for the epigenetics star-studded Keystone Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility Meeting that kicks off March 27th, 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. In the interview he […]

Adiós Amnio: Noninvasive Down Syndrome Screening with Fetal DNA Methylation

March 6, 2011

Oscar winner Natalie Portman and other pregnant women may glow with hormones. But to-be-mamas lose some of that radiance at the thought of having a long needle dig into their bellies to check their unborn baby for Down syndrome. Now thanks to some intrepid researchers, pregnant women might be able to ditch the stressful prenatal […]

DNA Methylation Links Low Maternal Folate with Neural Tube Defects

March 1, 2011

Increasing evidence supports that mom’s parental duties start way before birth. Make sure you do this…don’t do that, but don’t stress over it. It’s great to see researchers starting to get a hold of the “why” behind all the rules. Not getting enough folate from mom puts fetuses at risk for neural tube defects such […]

Stressed Out Moms Methylate

March 1, 2011

Raising babies is a stressful thing, made even more so when Mom herself is raised: a meter high on a Plexiglas platform, while she’s pregnant, that is. The effect on her kids – er, pups – is manifest in brain and body weight, in behavioral development, and even epigenetically. Researchers from the University of Lethbridge […]

miRNPs Offer Support to miRNA Seeds

February 28, 2011

Everyone appreciates a little extra support now and then, and a new study shows that miRNAs, or more specifically their seed regions, do too. The report in NAR uncovered that micro-ribonucleoprotein complexes (miRNPs) get miRNAs ready to take care of their mRNA targeting business by shoring up the structure of miRNA seed regions, which is […]

Turning Back the Clock: Epigenetics, iPSCs and Aging

February 25, 2011

Aging can be a real downer, but for some individuals premature aging is a lot more serious than a few aches and pains the morning after some touch football. Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare and fatal genetic disorder where the victims speed through aging. It is caused by a point mutation in the […]

5-mC Stabilizes High-Maintenance Methyltransferases

February 16, 2011

Many things in life–like diets, exercise routines, and blogs–are easier to start than maintain. The same can be said for DNA methylation. De novo methyltransferases establish DNA methylation patterns in embryonic stem cells, but exactly how somatic cells maintain these patterns is puzzling. Now researchers at the University of Southern California have identified a new […]

Cocaine Keeps the LINEs Jumping

February 16, 2011

New research surfacing in PNAS details the downward spiral cocaine induces in heterochromatin in the reward center of our brains. Over the years researchers have found that cocaine can regulate chromatin structure in the nucleus accumbens, a reward region in the brain and an area closely tied to addiction. DNA methylation machinery has also been […]

CoSBI Squeezes More Data From Histone Maps

February 14, 2011

As the ‘histone code’ hypothesis gains steam, it’s become obvious that there isn’t much out there to help the chromatin research community look for combinatorial relationships between histone modifications. That’s where the Coherent and Shifted Bicluster Identification (CoSBI) algorithm comes in; to help wring even more data from genome wide histone mod maps. Not to […]

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