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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Animals often use highly specific signals to warn their herd about approaching predators. Surprisingly, similar behaviors are also observed among plants. Shedding more light on this phenomenon, Tokyo University of Science ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 10, 2022
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Your DNA holds the blueprint to build your body, but it's a living document: Adjustments to the design can be made by epigenetic marks.
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 28, 2022
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Researchers have developed a technique that allows them to look simultaneously at a spatial level and at a genome-wide level at epigenetic mechanisms underlying tissue development, a breakthrough with multiple scientific ...
Biotechnology
Feb 11, 2022
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