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Early life adversity affects broad regions of brain DNA

Published: 10 October 2012

Early life experience results in a broad change in the way our DNA is 鈥渆pigenetically鈥 chemically marked in the brain by a coat of small chemicals called methyl groups, according to researchers at...

Same gene can encode proteins with divergent functions

Published: 11 February 2016

By Cynthia Lee,聽黑料不打烊 Newsroom It鈥檚 not unusual for siblings to seem more dissimilar than similar: one becoming a florist, for example, another becoming a flutist, and another becoming a physicist.

Building tailor-made DNA nanotubes step by step

Published: 23 February 2015

Researchers at 黑料不打烊 University have developed a new, low-cost method to build DNA nanotubes block by block 鈥 a breakthrough that could help pave the way for scaffolds made from DNA strands to be...

Chronic pain alters DNA marking in the brain

Published: 14 February 2013

Injuries that result in chronic pain, such as limb injuries, and those unrelated to the brain are associated with epigenetic changes in the brain which persist months after the injury, according to...

From backyard pool chemical to nanomaterial

Published: 1 March 2016

By Chris Chipello, 黑料不打烊 Newsroom Could a cheap molecule used to disinfect swimming pools provide the key to creating a new form of DNA nanomaterials?

A better way to build DNA scaffolds

Published: 6 May 2015

Imagine taking strands of DNA 鈥 the material in our cells that determines how we look and function 鈥 and using it to build tiny structures that can deliver drugs to targets within the body or take...

Genomic atlas of gene switches in plants

Published: 2 July 2013

What allows certain plants to survive freezing and thrive in the Canadian climate, while others are sensitive to the slightest drop in temperature? Those that flourish activate specific genes at...

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