Genetics
Twin study highlights importance of both genetics and environment on gene activity
New research highlights the extent to which epigenetic variation is influenced by both inherited and environmental factors.
Aug 3, 2018
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News tagged with epigenetic marks
Genetics
Genetic guides to epigenetics
Dirk Schübeler and his group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) identify determinants that set epigenetic marks along the genome. The new study, published in Nature, shows that genetic activity ...
Feb 10, 2015
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Epigenetics drives weight differences between identical twins
Having overweight parents significantly increases your risk of obesity, but the inheritance of specific mutations can't always explain why this is the case. In a study published January 28 in Cell, researchers show that differences ...
Jan 28, 2016
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Key differences in young, older people's immune cells attributed to environment
Discoveries by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators may help explain why older people's immune systems often don't work so well, why different people's immune systems age at different rates, and why the environment ...
Apr 26, 2018
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Breakthrough genomics technique can be used to map epigenetic marks across the genome using fewer cells
A Ludwig Cancer Research study published online September 14th in Nature reports a novel technique to map specific chemical (or "epigenetic") modifications made to the protein packaging of DNA using a small population of ...
Sep 20, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Putting black skin cancer to sleep—for good
An international research team has succeeded in stopping the growth of malignant melanoma by reactivating a protective mechanism that prevents tumor cells from dividing. The team used chemical agents to block the enzymes ...
Feb 22, 2018
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Keeping egg cells fresh with epigenetics
Keeping egg cells in stasis during childhood is a key part of female fertility. New research published today in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology sheds some light on the role of epigenetics in placing egg cells into ...
Jan 1, 2018
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New technique maps life's effects on our DNA
Researchers at the BBSRC-funded Babraham Institute, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Single Cell Genomics Centre, have developed a powerful new single-cell technique to help investigate how the environment ...
Jul 20, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Tracking the epigenetic evolution of a cancer, cell by cell
A powerful new set of scientific tools developed by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center (NYGC) researchers enables them to track the molecular evolution of cancers. The tools should enable a better understanding ...
May 16, 2019
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Researchers unlock the secrets of liver regeneration
In a recent study published in the journal Developmental Cell, NYU Abu Dhabi researchers have reported a new way in which the liver is primed to regenerate itself. They found that by stripping parts of the epigenome, which ...
Jun 20, 2019
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