Binge Drinking May Be More Epigenetically Harmful To Women
…to how it affects their epigenetics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlight binge drinking as a serious public health problem, and call it out as the most expensive…
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Novel Assay to Probe the DNA Methylation State of Multiple Genomic Loci in Single Cells
The scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) developed a novel methodology to probe single cells for various DNA-methylation errors at…
Folate Deficiency in a Father’s Diet Could Cause Negative Pregnancy Outcomes by Changing Sperm Epigenome
…malformations. The scientists fed male mice either a folate-deficient or folate-sufficient diet throughout life and then performed genome-wide DNA methylation analysis and subsequent functional analysis to identify differential methylation in…
Epigenetic Signature Found in Blood Predicts Chances of Getting Breast Cancer
…all about it and read more about their findings here: A BRCA1-mutation associated DNA methylation signature in blood cells predicts sporadic breast cancer incidence and survival. Shahzia Anjum, Evangelia-Ourania Fourkala,…
Can An Infection Alter Your Epigenome?
…studies lend support to this idea by showing how Toxoplasma infection has the potential to alter both DNA methylation and histone acetylation, modifications that repress or activate genes, respectively. In…
The Epigenetics Behind Unique Human Faces
…chins? Researchers from Switzerland and France have wondered this, and published a study in Science that suggests epigenetics might be a key player. Filippo Rijli from Friedrich Miescher Institute for…
Book Review: Epigenetics by Lyle Armstrong
…well-written scientific textbook brings together the structure and machinery of epigenetic modification, how epigenetic modification controls cellular functions, and the evidence for the relationship between epigenetics and disease. Content:…
Overweight Fathers May Epigenetically Increase Their Daughters’ Risk of Breast Cancer
…the father to his daughter. In addition, they found that mammary gland development was altered and there was an increased risk of breast cancer in their daughters. MicroRNAs are epigenetic…
Epigenetics May Explain Why Stress From Exercise is Good for the Heart
…healthy body weight and has been shown to lower the risk of diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure. It’s even been shown to keep the brain healthy….
Intended Epigenetic Drug Has Opposite Effect for Lung Cancer
…Rowbotham, PhD, and Carla Kim, PhD, who work on the study questioned this premise. Rowbotham said, “People had looked at cell lines from lung tumors and found that they are…
