The Mark of Faith
| March 1, 2011
Testing a central tenet of epigenetic regulation
Did Erasmus Darwin foreshadow the tweaking of his grandson’s paradigm?
Rudolf Jaenisch enjoys climbing mountains, rafting rapids, and unraveling the secrets of pluripotency—knowledge that could someday lead to personalized regenerative medicine.
There are many ways that epigenetic effects regulate the activation or repression of genes. Here are a few molecular tricks cells use to read off the right genetic program.
Epigenetic events regulate the activities of genes without changing the DNA sequence. Different genes are expressed depending on the methyl-marks attached to DNA itself and by changes in the structure and/or composition of chromatin. The main compone
Research in behavioral epigenetics is seeking evidence that links experience to biochemistry to gene expression and back out again.
Joachim Messing talks about how genomic imprinting may be a strong driver of diversity.
A snapshot of the highest-ranked articles from a 30-day period on Faculty of 1000
A father’s determination to help his son resulted in an experimental treatment for autism that uses roundworms to modulate inflammatory immune responses. Can the worms be used to treat other diseases?