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Terry's LJ (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Blame your allergies on your mom's diet : A pregnant mouse's diet can induce epigenetic changes that increase the risk her offspring will develop allergic asthma, according to researchers at National Jewish Health and Duke University Medical Center. Pregnant mice that consumed diets high in supplements containing methyl-donors, such as folic acid, had offspring with more severe allergic airway disease...
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Contract Pharma Breaking News (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Millipore Corp. and Agilent Technologies have formed a collaboration to develop ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation) kits for the epigenetics research market. The kits will be designed to improve productivity for protein research and simplify the way genetic information is studied. ChIP is a technique that helps researchers understand the relationship between DNA and the proteins that impact gene...
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MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Biology stands on the brink of a shift in the understanding of inheritance. The discovery of epigenetics – hidden influences upon the genes – could affect every aspect of our lives. At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea – that genes have a 'memory'. That the lives of your grandparents – the air they breathed, the food they ate, even the things they saw – can directly affect...
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RenewAmerica columns (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
(David Hines) - Is socialism in our genes? Perhaps -- in a manner of speaking. I was having a discussion with someone who has been reading up on epigenetics. This is a recent area of study. Temporary conditions alter how and whether genes are expressed. These changes are heritable. In one case study, a few families who suffered a food shortage were tracked...
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Darwiniana (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Science Saturday: The Young and the Restless Epigenetics: new and exciting, but not quite magical (15:40) How to rewind the tape of life in the comfort of your own lab (07:29) Life of a female grad student (06:01) PZ incurs the wrath of Bill Donahue of the Catholic League (02:44) Why it’s not elitist to fight to improve science education [...]
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Fitness Watch (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Techno-babble 'cause it will make no difference. "Overweight mothers give birth to offspring who become even heavier, resulting in amplification of obesity across generations, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston who found that chemical changes in the ways genes are expressed - a phenomenon called epigenetics - could affect successive generations of mice. 'There is an obesity epidemic...
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EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
ValiRx plc (AIM:VAL, ‘ ValiRx ’ ), the cancer therapeutics and diagnostics company, has announced promising in vivo results for its lea.. - Read more
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
VENLO, THE NETHERLANDS -- 06/18/08 -- Expanded EpiTect portfolio targets growing demand for standardized sample and assay technologies to investigate processes regulating gene function Venlo, The Netherlands - June 18, ..
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artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
In the full version of the commentary quoted below, the authors mention four lines of research that they believe hold promise for the future: vaccines, epigenetics, targeted therapies, and cancer "stem cells." (p. A17) This week, the National Cancer...
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Angry Toxicologist (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
In one of the sessions today there was a fantastic talk by Dr Dolinoy . Here are my notes with some explainations where needed: Epigenetics (this is where you affect gene expression by means other than damaging DNA, messing with transcription or translation of DNA/RNA, for instance). If you give murine dams (mice mothers) genestein (a phytoestrogen that is part of soy) that would be equivalent to...
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ERV (Free subscription) | 20/12/2007
I recently stumbled across another anti-science blog. Normally Id just ignore it (unless its a tard-mine , like UD), but this one figured out how to keep my attention: Theyre trying to combine ERVs, epigenetics, and anti-evolution. Theyre The Anti-ERV . And though Im not linking to them until I can get a real post up, Ive got to wonder out loud, out of exasperation: Why do anti-science people ( Deniers...
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Curing Death by Curing Aging (Free subscription) | 18/12/2007
Researchers suggest epigenetics, or the way DNA is processed and expressed, may be the underlying cause for male infertility.
