David Allis, pioneer in epigenetics, to receive prestigious Japan Prize
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 18:10
in Biology & Nature
Allis’s discovery that chemical “tags” bind to specific sections of histone proteins in order to activate or silence nearby genes has ignited the field of epigenetics, a relatively new area of study which explores the inheritance of physical changes that cannot be traced back to mutations in the DNA sequence. The Japan Prize, worth approximately half a million dollars, is among the most prestigious prizes in science. More »