Researchers identify two proteins important for the demethylation of DNA
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 08:11
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz have identified a missing piece of the puzzle in understanding how epigenetic marks are removed from DNA. The research on DNA demethylation sheds new light on a fundamental process that is important in development and diseases such as cancer.Epigenetics is defined by heritable changes in gene expression that do not derive from changes in the DNA sequence itself.