Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection continues to pose a major global health threat. The virus evades immune responses and antiviral therapies due to the persistence of covalently closed circular ...

Histones not only keep DNA organized, but also help regulate gene expression. How? Scientists are using ChIP and PCR to find out. To examine changes in histone modification during blood cell ...

Epigenetics is the study of various heritable alterations that control gene expression without changing the DNA sequence ... the most established and well-researched of which are histone modifications ...

Setd2 is instrumental in the trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 36 (H3K36me3), a modification that influences gene expression and ... specific 5′ Hoxa cluster genes. The study's conclusions ...