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epigenetics

Human brain lift the HAT to greet life and aging: and modulate “his-tone” acetylation to develop and TIP its memories

The importance of gene transcription for normality To transcribe the information contained in our genes or to repair the dozens of breaks that occur daily...

Effetti del fumo sul sistema immunitario (II): la durevolezza degli effetti legata alla metilazione del DNA

Come altri fattori come l’età, il sesso e la genetica, il fumo ha un impatto importante sulle risposte immunitarie. Questa è la scoperta recentemente...

Can cer-tain enzymes be targeted to suppress metastases? Any epigenetic cascade is NN MT of roles

A cell can be pictured like a social network: in theory, every person is connected to every other person in the world through surprisingly...

Lactate: that useless disposable junk, working as a genetic regulator in cancer cells

Described by Otto Warburg a century ago, accelerated glucose consumption and lactate production under fully aerobic conditions is ubiquitous in solid cancers. Observations of...

Osteoporosis surfs epigenetics: is histone methylation relying on gender to take its effects?

Nearly 19% of american women aged 50 and older have osteoporosis in their hips and lower spines. Osteoporosis-associated weakening of the bones increases the...

Multiple sclerosis: endogenous metabolites actually spawned epigenetics

Understanding and mitigating the role of epigenetics (environmental influences that trigger changes in gene expression) in disease development is a major goal of researchers....