Archive for December, 2007

7 Random Things About A Meme Newbie

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Sandra Porter at Discovering Biology in a Digital World (excellent blog) has decided to tag Epigenetics News with a meme. With this being the first meme at the site, I should probably explain what a meme is. From Wikipedia:
A meme, as defined within memetic theory, constitutes a theoretical unit of cultural information, the building block [...]

Win a DVD of NOVA’s Ghost in Your Genes

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

This fall, PBS NOVA aired a special episode, “The Ghost in Your Genes“, featuring epigenetics. (This should not be confused with the “Ghost in Your Genes” by BBC Horizons aired in 2005.) The episode featured a number of epigenetics researchers and their work, including:

Wolf Reik

Michael Skinner

Marcus Pembrey

Randy Jirtle

Jean-Pierre Issa

Mark F. Mehler

Manel Esteller

Moshe Szyf

Michael Meaney

Andrew [...]

Science Links for December 8, 2007

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

One of the postdocs here in the Skinner lab, Dr. Ramji Bhandari, has started a blog related to his area of expertise, Sex Determination Research. Ramji is new to blogging and decided to get his feet wet with a number of relevent abstracts, which will be a nice resource for those interested in sex determination.
Cautious [...]