Sentences with phrase «epigenetic signals from»
The even greater surprise is the recent discovery that epigenetic signals from the environment can be passed on from one generation to the next, sometimes for several generations, without changing a single gene sequence.
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Even if researchers can pick the signals from the noise, they will then have to work out what the epigenetic changes do, and whether they are in fact adaptive — a tall order given how little we know about interpreting epigenetic signals even in modern DNA.
For example, although Cooper's team successfully read methylation from a fossil bison specimen, they could not find a signal in five other bison fossils they examined, which suggests that reading ancient epigenetic signatures requires exceptional preservation.
Scientists from the cluster of excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies at the University of Freiburg and the Freiburg University Medical Center have shown that inhibiting the epigenetic regulator KDM4 might offer a potential novel treatment option for breast cancer patients.