Writers ‘mark’ histones and DNAs by adding chemical ... whereas erasers remove them (see ‘The epigenetic landscape’). Several drugs that inhibit epigenetic writers and erasers have been ...

A genomic scan of the girl’s tumour revealed epigenetic methylation patterns consistent with low-grade glioma, which is slow-growing and curable, and hard to distinguish from glioblastoma on the ...

In recent years, biomedical laboratory research has undergone tremendous change, to the extent that computers have frequently replaced test tubes. In this context, many discoveries now start with ...