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Assisted Reproduction Treatments May Cause Imprinting Problems

January 26, 2012  Assisted reproduction treatments help patients with fertility issues get pregnant, but are also tied to imprinting disorders. This review searched for data linking ART and epigenetic effects in humans and mice. Read More...

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3D Chromatin Structure’s Special Effects on Transcription

January 25, 2012  “Everything is better in 3D!” Maybe that thought inspired this new study that uncovered how the 3-dimensional structure of chromatin has some very special effects on the regulation of gene transcription.  Read More...

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5-hmC Stability a Mixed Bag in Neural Development and Aging

January 25, 2012  Updates on the function of 5-hmC keep pouring in. New reports find that while some 5-hmC marks are stable, and others are dynamic, both may be critical for neural development right after birth and later on in adulthood.  Read More...

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Getting Down to Histone Antibody Specifics

December 15, 2011  Clearly, antibody specificity is important to researchers, but what are vendors doing about it? We spoke with Anita Lozsa, and Michael Sturges from EMD Millipore see how they are taking on this specificity challenge.  Read More...

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Profiling Exon Methylation with Liquid Hybridization Capture-Based Bisulfite Sequencing

December 12, 2011  Sometimes, you just want to get right to the good stuff, and it's no different with methylomes. With liquid hybridization capture-based bisulfite sequencing (LHC-BS) you just grab the good stuff—exons—and directly analyze for methylation. Read More...

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New Tricks For Old Epigenetics Techniques

November 28, 2011  Check out these examples of researchers that decided to spruce up a popular epigenetics method. Maybe you’ll even be inspired to make a few new tweaks of your own. Read More...

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