Sentences with phrase «molecular epigenetics studies»

Abstract: The emerging field of molecular epigenetics studies relatively stable changes in genetic activity that are not due to changes in the DNA sequence.

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The study, published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, showed that a combination of genetics and epigenetics — factors that turn genes on or off — could explain how lactose intolerance develops over time.

«Our study connects the dots between Werner syndrome and heterochromatin disorganization, outlining a molecular mechanism by which a genetic mutation leads to a general disruption of cellular processes by disrupting epigenetic regulation,» says Izpisua Belmonte.

In a new study published in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have shown that a subtle epigenetic change plays an important role in the correct segregation of chromosomes.

Jean - Pierre Issa, MD, Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology at Temple University School of Medicine and co-Leader of the Cancer Epigenetics Program at the Fox Chase Cancer Center is lead author of the study, which has been published August 19 in the journal, Lancet Oncology.

The pair of studies bring renewed focus to the epigenetics of T cells — the multilayered system of molecular switches, accelerators, and throttles that controls the activity of genes.

Since then, various reports suggested epigenetic inheritance in different organisms but the molecular mechanisms were unknown,» says Nicola Iovino, corresponding author in the new study.

For his study of cancer and epigenetics, «ENCODE data were fundamental,» says Mathieu Lupien, a molecular biologist from the University of Toronto in Canada who was not associated with ENCODE.

In their new study, co-corresponding authors Wei Wang, PhD, professor in the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Gary S. Firestein, MD, professor in the Department of Medicine, investigated epigenetic patterns in fibroblast - like synoviocytes (FLS)-- a specialized type of cell that lines the inside of joints.

Additionally, Ladd - Acosta is pursuing the development of new molecular epigenetic methods and tools to enable the next generation of epidemiology studies, more broadly.

We study tumor specimens and companion normal tissues to determine the molecular features — including DNA mutations, epigenetics, transcriptomics, and proteomics — associated with specific patient responses.

A new study by Mark Bedford, Ph.D., professor of Molecular Carcinogenesis, and colleagues published in Molecular Cell sheds light on the mechanism by which TDRD3 — a protein that «reads» epigenetic marks on chromosomal proteins — turns on certain genes.

As a partner of the European Consortium 3D - REPERTOIRE and coordinator of the Spanish Structural Genomics Consortium GENES, our group studies several protein complexes and molecular machines, some of which are related to the epigenetic control of gene expression.

To pursue these studies, the Noma laboratory employs genomic technologies and single locus / live - cell imaging technology along with molecular and chromatin biology and epigenetics.

The Unit studies varied mammalian physiological phenomena from a molecular perspective in the context of the whole organism with a very strong emphasis, following a recent refocusing of our research on Neurobiology and Epigenetics and their interface.

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Based on a modified version of Gottlieb's scheme of psychobiological development, this study conceptualizes epigenetic mechanisms as molecular underpinnings mediating interactions between neural and

Based on a modified version of Gottlieb's scheme of psychobiological development, this study conceptualizes epigenetic mechanisms as molecular underpinnings mediating interactions between neural and... genetic activity levels.