Hello! you have reached the official blog spot of our lab which is based at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Urology - our main area of study is prostate cancer, nutrition, and epigenetics - but we also study changes in gene expression in benign-prostatic hyperplasia - we have made this blog so as we can share thoughts about the lab, papers that are just published and anything else remotely relevant at any time, and from anywhere!
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Friday, August 19, 2011
highly recommended reading...CNCing Is Believing!
Read the short perspective in today's Science Magazine, it is by Gregory A. Wray and discusses the potential contribution of conserved non-coding [aka "junk"] DNA between species - although this appears to be a discussion regarding speciation and evolutionary biology, the concepts can also be applied to carcinogenesis - tumor cell are constantly evolving in response to a changing environment - and it appears that these elements are able to control transcriptional regulation from a long distance...something to keep in mind perhaps...see the article at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6045/946.full.pdf
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