May 24, 2006

Transmission of epigenetic traits in animals

Rassoulzadegan et al. now describe "RNA-mediated non-mendelian inheritance of an epigenetic change in the mouse." Nature. Of course, Renato Paro showed non-mendelian inheritance in animals (in an artifical system) some time ago (Cavalli and Paro, 1999 PubMed ID 10542150, Science) in a paper that I used in my graduate genetics class.

May 05, 2006

Yijun Ruan

Today's CBMG speaker, Yijun Ruan, gave a nice talk. I was impressed with his paired-end di-TAG technology applied to transcripts (transcripts) and ChIP.