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Epigenetic Difference in Twins Explains Different Risk of Breast Cancer
October 17, 2012 — Researchers have identified an epigenetic change in a twin who will develop breast cancer but not in her healthy ... > full story -
Replicating Risk Genes in Bipolar Disorder
October 15, 2012 — One of the biggest challenges in psychiatric genetics has been to replicate findings across large studies. Scientists have now performed one of the largest ever genetic replication studies of bipolar ... > full story -
Adult Stem Cells Change Their Epigenome to Generate New Organs
October 2, 2012 — Scientists have identified epigenetic changes that occur in adult stem cells to generate different body ... > full story -
Scientists Find Missing Link Between Players in the Epigenetic Code
September 30, 2012 — New research has established the first link between the two most fundamental epigenetic tags -- histone modification and DNA methylation -- in ... > full story -
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Dioxin Causes Disease and Reproductive Problems Across Generations, Study Finds
September 26, 2012 — Since the 1960s, when the defoliant Agent Orange was widely used in Vietnam, military, industry and environmental groups have debated the toxicity of its main ingredient, the chemical dioxin, and how ... > full story -
Study Pinpoints Epigenetic Function of Common Cancer-Causing Protein: It's Not What Science Thought
September 26, 2012 — "This is a potent oncogene whose mechanism we thought we knew. But basically in this paper we demolish the accepted model. DNp63a doesn't work through p53 – it operates through epigenetic ... > full story -
Making and Breaking Heterochromatin
September 25, 2012 — To fit the two-meter long DNA molecule into a cell nucleus that is only a few thousandths of a millimetre in size, long sections of the DNA must be strongly compacted. Epigenetic marks maintain these ... > full story -
Addictive Properties of Drug Abuse May Hold Key to an HIV Cure
September 21, 2012 — A medical researcher is on a mission to explore the gene-controlling effects of addictive drugs in pursuit of new HIV ... > full story -
Epigenetics: Mother's Nutrition -- Before Pregnancy -- May Alter Function of Her Children's Genes
September 20, 2012 — A pregnant mom's diet affects her child's health. Now, new research in mice suggests that what mom ate before pregnancy is also important. The diets of female mice before pregnancy chemically altered ... > full story -
Scientists Uncover Mechanism by Which Plants Inherit Epigenetic Modifications
September 20, 2012 — Scientists have discovered that epigenetic modifications can be inherited in pollen and that this process is guided by small RNA. By this mechanism, acquired traits can be inherited over many ... > full story
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