Tag: Epigenetics

• New targeted epigenetic therapy for lymphoma shows promise

  New compounds targeting epigenetics have shown promise in treating patients with lymphoma, according to data presented at the Targeted Anticancer Therapies International Congress 2018 in Paris, France. ESMO’s phase-I oncology meeting featured early clinical studies with BET inhibitors and EZH2 inhibitors. Dr. Anastasios Stathis, head of the New Drugs Development Unit of the Oncology Institute…

  Sreeram Penna

  March 5, 2018

• The role of PRC2 in controlling gene activity in human stem cells.

  Researchers at the Babraham Institute have revealed a new understanding of the molecular switches that control gene activity in human embryonic stem cells. In the developing embryo and during the specialisation of stem cells, the activity of genes must be tightly controlled so that the correct genes are switched on and off at the right…

  Sreeram Penna

  February 20, 2017

• National Institutes of Health to expand ENCODE project

  The National Institutes of Health plans to expand its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project, a genomics resource used by many scientists to study human health and disease. Funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, the ENCODE Project is generating a catalog of all the genes and regulatory elements the…

  Sreeram Penna

  February 3, 2017

• Obesity related Epigenetic changes in DNA

  Obesity has been linked to “letter” changes at many different sites in the genome, yet these differences do not fully explain the variation in people’s body mass index (BMI) or why some overweight people develop health complications while others don’t. A large study from Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of Edinburgh, the Harvard School of…

  Sreeram Penna

  January 19, 2017

• Similar epigenetic mark found in brain cells of different types of autism disorder

  UCLA scientists and their colleagues have found evidence that an abnormal pattern of brain cells is common in people with different types of autism disorders. The abnormal pattern discovered in the study, reported in journal Cell, concerns a certain type of “epigenetic mark,” a chemical modification that occurs frequently on chromosomes and helps regulate the…

  Sreeram Penna

  December 20, 2016

• Vitamins A and Vitamin C help erase epigenetic memory held by cells

  Vitamins A and C aren’t just good for your health, they affect your DNA too. Researchers at the Babraham Institute and their international collaborators have discovered how vitamins A and C act to modify the epigenetic ‘memory’ held by cells; insight which is significant for regenerative medicine and our ability to reprogramme cells from one…

  Sreeram Penna

  October 17, 2016