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...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...
Read More...No; read here why.
Published at Nature Blogs Soapbox Science, 25 Jul 2012
"My dream is that by collaborating with Brazil’s inherently creative, scientifically curious and innovative culture, we can create a template that could be applied to the rest of the world." [online]
Published 27 July 2012 on CBS News Online, By Christopher Wanjek
A group led by Randy Jirtle of Duke University demonstrated how mouse clones implanted as embryos in separate mothers will have radical differences in fur color, weight, and risk for chronic diseases depending on what that mother was fed during pregnancy.But what still is missing, is an understanding of how such information is remembered from generation to generation. Could it be due to epigenetic information? [online]
In selections from the archives of Scientific American, physicists give firsthand accounts of their groundbreaking work. By John Matson and Ferris Jabr,
June 28, 2012 [online]