Epigenetics News

Posted May 12, 2011:

• Why Some Genes Are Silenced: Researchers Find Clue as to How Notes Are Played on the 'Genetic Piano'
• Discovery of DNA Silencing Mechanism Reveals How Plants Protect Their Genome

Posted May 5, 2011:

• Epigenetic Study Reveals New Insights Into Breast Cancer

Posted April 18, 2011:

• New Link Between Mother's Pregnancy Diet and Offspring's Chances of Obesity Found

Posted March 23, 2011:

• Traumatizing Your DNA: Researcher Warns That It Isn't 'All in the Genes'

Posted March 7, 2011:

• Why Poor Diet During Pregnancy Negatively Affects Offspring's Long-Term Health

Posted February 2, 2011:

• Cell Reprogramming Leaves a 'Footprint' Behind

Posted January 26, 2011:

• Molecular Mechanism Links Stress With Predisposition for Depression

Posted January 18, 2011:

• Scientists Bring Cancer Cells Back Under Control

Posted January 14, 2011:

• Molecular Rationale for Combining Targeted Agents to Treat Breast Cancer

Posted January 13, 2011:

• Deep Genomics: In the Case of DNA, the Package Can Be as Important as Its Contents, New Work With Fruit Flies Reveals

Posted December 23, 2010:

• You Are What Your Father Ate, Too: Paternal Diet Affects Lipid Metabolizing Genes in Offspring, Research Suggests

Posted December 22, 2010:

• Breakthrough in Melanoma Research: Protein Suppresses Progression of Melanoma
• Learning to Read the Genome: Most Detailed Annotation of Fruit-Fly Genome Points Way to Understanding All Organisms' Genomes

Posted December 21, 2010:

• Gene Alteration Identified That Predisposes to Syndrome With High Risk of Cancer

Posted December 16, 2010:

• Tools Used to Decipher 'Histone Code' May Be Faulty

Posted December 15, 2010:

• Multitude of Genetic Regions Key to Embryonic Stem Cell Development Identified

Posted December 13, 2010:

• Ovarian Cancer Advances When Genes Are Silenced

Posted December 9, 2010:

• Personalized Molecular Therapy Shows Promising Results for People With Advanced Lung Cancer

Posted November 15, 2010:

• Alzheimer's Disease Inherited Through Maternal Line, Study Finds

Posted November 9, 2010:

• Human Methylome Sequenced at Single Base-Pair Resolution

Posted October 18, 2010:

• Mystery Solved: How Genes Are Selectively Silenced

Posted October 11, 2010:

• On the Trail of the Epigenetic Code: Test System on Drosophila Should Provide the Key to Histone Function

Posted October 9, 2010:

• Cancer-Linked Epigenetic Effects of Smoking Found

Posted October 3, 2010:

• What Makes Us Age? Ticking of Cellular Clock Promotes Seismic Changes in Chromatin Landscape Associated With Aging

Posted September 30, 2010:

• Epigenomics Discovery Yields New Information About Fat Cells
• Role of DNA Methylation in Multiple Myeloma Blood Cancer Identified

Posted September 17, 2010:

• At the Crossroads of Chromosomes: Study Reveals Structure of Cell Division’s Key Molecule

Posted September 15, 2010:

• Genes Related to Body Mass Discovered

Posted September 8, 2010:

• Genes Tied to Deadliest Ovarian Cancers Identified
• Does the Impact of Psychological Trauma Cross Generations?

Posted August 26, 2010:

• Genome Comparison of Ants Establishes New Model Species for Molecular Research
• Genomes of Two Ant Species Sequenced: Clues to Their Extraordinary Social Behavior

Posted August 17, 2010:

• Swimming Upstream: Molecular Approaches to Better Understand Male Infertility

Posted August 16, 2010:

• Scientists Map Epigenetic Changes During Blood Cell Differentiation; Potential Application for Stem Cell Therapies

Posted August 10, 2010:

• Common Orchid Gives Scientists Hope in Face of Climate Change

Posted July 30, 2010:

• Diet and Alcohol Alter Epigenetics of Breast Cancer, Study Suggests

Posted July 19, 2010:

• Stem Cells Made by Reprogramming Hold Onto Their Past

Posted July 15, 2010:

• New Role for Master Regulator in Cell Metabolism, Response to Stress: Clinical Implications for Obesity, Diabetes and Cancer Research
• Wood Smoke Exposure Multiplies Damage from Smoking, Increases Risk of COPD

Posted July 12, 2010:

• New Epigenetic Player Implicated in Mental Retardation and Facial Birth Defects

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Scientists Reprogram Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells to Respond to Tamoxifen

Posted June 29, 2010:

• Smoking-Related Colorectal Cancer in Older Women Is Associated With Molecularly Defined DNA Changes

Posted June 24, 2010:

• How Embryos Fight Retroviral Infection

Posted June 16, 2010:

• Certain Proteins Extend Life Span in Worms by 30 Percent

Posted June 7, 2010:

• Epigenetic Gene Silencing May Hold Key to Fatal Lung Vascular Disease

Posted June 3, 2010:

• Epigenetic Similarities Between Wilms Tumor Cells and Normal Kidney Stem Cells Found

Posted May 7, 2010:

• Fatty Acid to Enhance Anticancer Drug

Posted May 6, 2010:

• Same Disease, Different Stem Cell Models
• Pluripotent and Differentiated Human Cells Reside in Decidedly Different Epigenomic Landscapes

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