Cutting-edge epigenetics research reveals new genes linked to metabolic syndrome in humans
Cutting-edge epigenetics research reveals new genes linked to metabolic syndrome in humans
UC collaboration unlocks a key to biofuel
Plant biologists and biochemists from UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have produced a gold mine of data by sequencing the genome of a green alga called Chromochloris zofingiensis.
Scientists discover how ‘jumping genes’ help black truffles adapt to their environment
Scientists discover how ‘jumping genes’ help black truffles adapt to their environment
Emerging Research Fonts Commentary
Matteo Pellegrini talks with ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions about this month’s Emerging Research Front paper in the field of Multidisciplinary.
A Widescreen View of Methylation
HHMI researchers have developed novel techniques and software that will provide scientists with the tools they need to decipher large-scale patterns in the vital – but little-understood – process of DNA methylation.
Deep Sequencing May Lead To Hardier Strains Of Rice
:Using a novel “deep sequencing” technology that can in one fell swoop decode 50 million sequences representing well over a billion bases of DNA, a research team is working to unmask where, why and how certain genes are switched on or off in rice — a crop vital to the world’s food supply. The project […]
In A Technical Tour De Force, Scientists Take A Global View Of The Epigenome
A collaboration between researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California at Los Angeles captured the genome-wide DNA methylation pattern of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana – the “laboratory rat” of the plant world – in one big sweep. “In a single experiment we recapitulated 20 years worth of anecdotal findings […]
