Epigenetics in the News*

IVF increases chances of birth defects Times of India, India - 2 hours ago ... likely to forget what they had learned. Along with the behavioral changes were changes in the methylation of genes — epigenetic changes, Schultz reports.

Picture emerging on genetic risks of in vitro fertilization Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - 6 hours ago The presence, or absence, of the methyl groups can control whether genes are active or not, a process known as epigenetics. Epigenetic changes not only ...

Gene Logic expands Aim168 Real Estate (press release), United Arab Emirates - 6 hours ago ... released high density Infinium HD assays, Illumina’s most advanced assays, as well as their whole genome expression and methylation technologies. ...

Bert W. O'Malley, MD, Recipient of the 2008 National Medal for ... PR Newswire (press release), NY - 8 hours ago These discoveries provided a coherent foundation for understanding epigenetic promotion of reproductive tissue growth and development by steroid hormones, ...

Pollution Causing Asthma Before Baby’s Even Born Babble Australia, Australia - 16 Feb 2009 A new study says traffic fumes will actually reprogram the DNA of an otherwise healthy foetus, paving the way for the child to be born asthmatic. Scared? ...

Asthma linked to prenatal pollution exposure ABC7Chicago.com,  USA - 16 Feb 2009 February 16, 2009 (WLS) -- Prenatal exposure to traffic pollution could lead to asthma. That's the finding of a new study in the journal PLoS One. ...

Indexing TNF-a gene expression usinga gene-targeted reporter cell line 7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY - 16 Feb 2009 ... by known genetic elements that may only partially capture gene regulation and by unknown features of chromatin specific to the integration site. ...

Applied Biosystems' new platform enables human genome sequencing ... MTBeurope, UK - 16 Feb 2009 It also expands the menu of applications into gene expression and epigenetic analysis, ultimately allowing customers to move one step closer to mainstream ...

Cloned human embryos successfully reprogrammed using human eggs MTBeurope, UK - 16 Feb 2009 Studies using cow and rabbit eggs clearly suggest that DNA methylation/demethylation of the donor DNA occurs in a species-specific way, and that the eggs ...

Prenatal Exposure to Traffic Pollution May Lead to Asthma U.S. News & World Report, DC - 16 Feb 2009 They found evidence of a possible new biomarker -- an epigenetic alteration in the gene ACSL3 -- associated with prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic ...