{"id":188984,"date":"2024-05-09T05:24:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-epigenome-editing-platform-enables-the-precise-programming-of-epigenetic-modifications"},"modified":"2024-05-09T05:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T10:24:09","slug":"new-epigenome-editing-platform-enables-the-precise-programming-of-epigenetic-modifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-epigenome-editing-platform-enables-the-precise-programming-of-epigenetic-modifications","title":{"rendered":"New Epigenome Editing Platform Enables the Precise Programming of Epigenetic Modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-epigenome-editing-platform-enables-the-precise-programming-of-epigenetic-modifications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study from the Hackett group at EMBL Rome led to the development of a powerful epigenetic editing technology, which unlocks the ability to precisely program chromatin modifications.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding how genes are regulated at the molecular level is a central challenge in modern biology. This complex mechanism is mainly driven by the interaction between proteins called transcription factors, DNA regulatory regions, and epigenetic modifications \u2013 chemical alterations that change chromatin structure. The set of epigenetic modifications of a cell\u2019s genome is referred to as the epigenome.<\/p>\n<p>Advancements in Epigenome Editing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study from the Hackett group at EMBL Rome led to the development of a powerful epigenetic editing technology, which unlocks the ability to precisely program chromatin modifications. Understanding how genes are regulated at the molecular level is a central challenge in modern biology. This complex mechanism is mainly driven by the interaction between proteins [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}