What if we could inherit more than our parents' genes? What if we could inherit the ability to turn genes on and off?
Evolution
Aug 11, 2022
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Fertility is finite for mammalian females. From birth, females possess a limited number of primordial follicles, collectively called the ovarian reserve. Within each follicle is an oocyte that eventually becomes an egg. But ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 10, 2022
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The most common bat in the United States, the big brown bat, boasts an unusually long lifespan of up to 19 years. A new study led by University of Maryland researchers identifies one of the secrets to this bat's exceptional ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2022
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Recently, Professor Chunxiang You from Shandong Agricultural University and her colleagues published a review article titled "Regulation of fleshy fruit ripening: from transcription factors to epigenetic modifications" in ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 8, 2022
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Higher water temperatures induce specific chemical tags at targeted locations on the DNA of embryonic zebrafish. These "epigenetic" changes can then reroute genetic pathways, so that the embryos change sex. This finding, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2022
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How does a nose remember that it's a nose? Or an eye remember that it's an eye?
Biochemistry
Jul 11, 2022
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Researchers from Karolinska Institutet identify an epigenetic regulator controlling the very first cell type specification in the human embryo. The study is published in Nature Cell Biology.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 2, 2022
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Research from the Babraham Institute has developed a method to "time jump" human skin cells by 30 years, turning back the aging clock for cells without losing their specialized function. Work by researchers in the Institute's ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 7, 2022
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Researchers from the Babraham Institute's Epigenetics research program have been able to learn more about naïve stem cell reprogramming following a genome wide functional screen. Their research, published today in Science ...
Biotechnology
Mar 25, 2022
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A new Cornell study, published in Nature Genetics, sheds light on a controversial debate in epigenetics—the set of molecular changes occurring on top of the genome that regulate how genes are turned on and off, but without ...
Biotechnology
Mar 14, 2022
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