Tag Archive for 'Epigenetics'

A nucleosome composed of DNA (gray) and histones (blue) with a single hemimethylated cytosine bound by CDCA7 (purple). Image credit: Kyohei Arita / Yiming Niu.

Scientists Discover New Sensor for DNA Methylation

Aug 28, 2024 by News Staff

DNA methylation is a broadly observed epigenetic modification in living systems, playing diverse functions in transcriptional regulation, transposable...

Look-alike humans share similar genotypes and differ in their DNA methylation and microbiome landscape. Image credit: Joshi et al., doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111257.

Study: Look-Alike Humans Have Similar DNA

Aug 23, 2022 by News Staff

New research led by Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute scientists shows that people with extreme look-alike faces share common genotypes, but...

Exercise training rewires the enhancers in regions of our DNA that are known to be associated with the risk to develop disease. Image credit: Sasin Tipchai.

Study: Physical Exercise Improves Health of Brain and Other Organs through Epigenetic Changes

Aug 4, 2021 by News Staff

Some sections of our DNA are genes, which are instructions for building proteins, while other sections — called enhancers — regulate which...

An atomic force microscopy image showing the interaction behavior of genomic DNA with the gold surface. Image credit: Sina et al, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07214-w.

Using Gold Nanoparticles to Rapidly Detect Cancer DNA

Dec 11, 2018 by Sam Sander Effron

Using as little as 1 picogram of purified DNA sample (think 2.5 trillion times lighter than a penny), scientists at the University of Brisbane have developed...

Microscopy image of Sulfolobus solfataricus. Image credit: D. Janckovik / W. Zillig.

Researchers Find First Ever Evidence for Epigenetics in Archaea

Dec 6, 2018 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of California, Santa Cruz, has found evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon...