It’s a big step. It’s stressful. Deciding which antibody will be “the one” in your ChIP applications isn’t easy, but you can relax a bit now as our good friends at Abcam must have sensed a touch of that antibody commitment-phobia within the research ranks, as they’ve just launched Abcam Antibody Panels; a way to let […]
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Cocaine Keeps the LINEs Jumping
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 […]
Stem Cells Can’t Hold Their Liquor
Growing up, you always hear that drinking alcohol kills brain cells. According to a new report (not to mention a slow recovery from the EpiGenie New Year’s Eve Bash) there’s definitely some truth to that old adage. Researchers at Indiana University looked at alcohol’s effect on neural stem cells (NSCs) during development by running NSC […]
Top Epigenetics Technology Features on EpiGenie
Want to catch up on some of the latest methods, new technologies, and expert technical tricks? You’re in the right place. Here’s a list of our favorite emerging Technology and Methods articles from the last year or so to really jump-start your 2011. Check ‘em out! DNA Methylation Analysis Methylome Analysis Snapshot February 11, 2010. […]
Combinatorial Histone Interactions Put Antibodies’ Specificity in a Bind
Whether you work in Hollywood or the research labs close by at UCLA, it seems like a good set of Abs can solve most problems. Unfortunately there’s no airbrushing when it comes to ChIP. Most ChIP antibodies are pretty good at recognizing the specific histone modification they were raised against, as a couple of recent […]