The epigenome editors: How tools such as CRISPR offer new details about epigenetics in Nature Medicine

2017-08-31

Cassandra Willyard interviewed EpiPredict's Prof. Dr Marianne Rots (UMCG , NL) for the feature story in Nature Medicine August 2017.

Researchers now have tools for altering the epigenome with unprecedented precision. These techniques, developed over the past 15 years, have enabled them to add or remove chemical tags on histones or DNA at specific places in the genome. These precise alterations have made it possible to probe the epigenome in ways that would have been impossible a decade ago.