Call for Submissions: Guest Blog Series 2026!
The Chromatin Digest is open to submissions for a Guest Blog Series! 🙂 If you’re interested in scientific writing, have some fascinating research to share, or a story you wish to tell, I would love to hear from you and feature you on the blog. This is open to everyone, regardless of career stage or…
The vault: 40-year-old cellular mystery one step closer to being solved
A vault particle. Image adapted from Tanaka et al. on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY SA-3.0. In 1986, researcher Nancy Kedersha and her supervisor Leonard Rome sat in the basement of the UCLA Biological Chemistry Department, next to an intimidating electron microscope that towered over the rest of the room. After several days of meticulously…
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2026: inspirational women in epigenetics
Today (Wednesday 11th February) marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Here are just a few of many trailblazing women in epigenetics that I find inspiring: Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock was an American biologist, and one of the first scientists to postulate that genes had to be switched on and off, even…
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