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What is the difference between a normal somatic human cell and a HeLa cell?
The human body contains more than one hundred thousand billion cells, which can be divided in two categories, if we look at it in a simplified way. One of them is somatic (derived from the greek...
Read More...Do methyl groups that are attached to DNA get copied in DNA replication?
Yes they do! And this ability of methyl groups to be copied at each round of DNA replication is what makes DNA methylation "epigenetics": the information carried by these methyl groups is...
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Epigenetics & disease
Cancer research: Open ambition
Jay Bradner believes that cancer can be defeated through control of epigenetics — and he is not shy about spreading the word.
Nature News, August 8, 2012 [online]
In treatment for leukemia, glimpses of the future
Published in The New York Times, by GINA KOLATA, July 7, 2012
Whole genome DNA and RNA sequencing uncovers an unusual treatment option for a researcher's cancer. [online]
A life-death predictor adds to a cancer’s strain
Genetic test changes the game in cancer prognosis
By Gina Kolata
Published: July 9, 2012 in the New York Times [online]
Cancer's epicentre: New understanding of how cancers work is yielding new treatments
Economist article about epigenetic treatments being developed to treat cancer.
Apr 7th 2012 [online]
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