The Chromatin Digest

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  • Call for Submissions: Guest Blog Series 2026!

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    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…

  • Should we rethink the histone code?

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    Histone modifications and their conventional notation. From Fig. 1 of Turner, 2005. “Dream of complications / On and on / That’s how my observation tends” – Interpol, “Complications” off their 2018 album, Marauder I was reading a paper earlier and the tiniest thing jumped out at me: the histone modification H3K27me3 written inversely as me3K27H3.…

  • Lingering epigenetic signatures may underlie weight regain

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    The “yo-yo” effect: even after losing weight, it can be easily regained. Image from Enrique Calabuig on Flickr.com, under CC BY-SA 2.0. Individuals with obesity frequently regain lost weight over time, even following long-term intervention or surgery. However, due to the challenges of working with human fat tissue at a single-cell level, the cellular mechanisms…