Techniques exist to visualize specific gene loci within tissue sections. And separate test-tube experiments exist to determine those genes’ epigenetic modifications. Now Gary Owens, a professor of cardiovascular research at the University of Virginia, has devised a new technique that enables gene visualization and epigenetic analysis at the same time.
“The dirty little secret of epigenetics research is that we report quantitative differences from a cell population,” says Andrew Feinberg, a professor of molecular medicine at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in the study. “If you really want to understand mechanisms, you also need to measure individual cells.”
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