Sentences with phrase «new epigenetic mark»

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All animals use the same enzyme to create the same methylation mark as a signal for gene repression, and her colleagues who study epigenetics in mice and humans are excited about the new findings, Strome said.

The team had to create new, highly sensitive ways to detect epigenetic marks in such small numbers of cells.

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.