The Research Group headed by molecular biologist Andrea Pichler from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg has made an important discovery in meiosis research. Pichler and her group have identified a new mechanism that plays an important role in meiosis. Meiosis, also called reductional division, is a key process in sexual [...]
What do you get when you dissect 10 000 fruit-fly larvae? A team of researchers led by the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in the UK and the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI) in Freiburg, Germany has discovered a way in which cells can adjust the activity of many different genes at once. [...]
In a fantastic example of “out of the box” thinking, a professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the University of Tel Aviv is trying to introduce a new way of looking at the human genome and how it affects our genetic makeup. According to Dr. Ehud Lamm, the traditional way of [...]
Now that the New Years holidays are over and most labs are back into the swing of things, it is time to remind you of your New Years resolution to introduce new, cutting edge tools into your lab in 2012. One such tool that you should definitley become more familiar with is High Resolution Melt [...]
Due to the fact that I spent most of my graduate years trying to identify which activator proteins interact with a specific gene enhancer region, studies that discuss transcriptional regulation are more likely to catch my eye than the average scientist. That is why I was particulary intrigued by a method published in Nature Genetics [...]
