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From Focus:
Protein Reverses Chromatin Engineering
Researchers have discovered an enzyme that plays an important role in controlling which genes will be turned on or off at any given time in a cell. The elusive molecule, whose presence in cells was suspected for decades but not proven, came to light for the first time through research by Yang Shi (center), Fei Lan (left), Yujiang Shi, and colleagues. A histone demethylase, the enzyme removes methyl groups appended to histone proteins that associate with DNA to form the nuclear chromatin structure and regulate gene activity. It could potentially reverse over-methylation of some histones, which leads to aberrant gene expression and cancer.
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Congratulations to Training Institute Grads
On Dec. 16, the Boston Health Care and Research Training Institute graduated more than 120 area employees, who recently completed institute skills and education programs. Nine of the grads are from HMS.
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U.S. Clothing Sizes May Cover Up Unnatural Concept of Body Size and Shape
Tarayn Grizzard and other expatriots she knows in Lima all have trouble finding clothes that fit them. Maybe it's not that the Peruvian women are unusually small, she says, but that American concepts of normal size and shape have become overgrown.
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