It's turning out to be something of a surprise for epigeneticists, too, that it seems to work differently in the brain, that we can have these changes and that they can be both dynamic and lasting.» (scripps.edu)
At the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, epigeneticist David Monk is looking into an altogether different question inspired by the tiny Silver - Russell children: how imprinting might affect fetal growth in babies without the syndrome. (sciencemag.org)
«The problem is, all of the studies we've done so far have been correlative,» says cancer epigeneticist Lanlan Shen, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who led the new study. (sciencenews.org)