Epigenetics

Gene regulation beyond the sequence – methylation, chromatin, and the tests bringing it to the clinic.

11 articles

Holocaust Exposure Induced Hereditary Epigenetic Changes

The holocaust experience has caused the survivors´descendents to accumulate epigenetic changes and mental distress like the ones of their parents. Rachel Yehuda´s research team at Mount Sinai,...

Biomedicine

Genomic Imprinting Can Target Just a Few Cells

Scientists from the University of Utah School of Medicine have discovered that genomic imprinting can be targeted to subregions of tissues or small clusters of...

Basic Research

First Epigenetic Mechanism Involving Histone Tails Solved at Atomic Level

Researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the University of Cambridge, and New York University have discovered the structural mechanism of chromatin...

Basic Research