Author: Brittany Shimanski Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is an extremely rare disease, associated with premature aging. It only affects 1 per 4-8 million live births…

Author: Brittany Shimanski Visit the full literature paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21060-2.pdf As we have learned for essentially our entire college experience, chromatin is regulated by post-translational modifications…

Author: Brittany Shimanski I have gathered many sources from the literature on Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), my disease of choice for the bcm441 disease project.…

Author: Brittany Shimanski https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22405.pdf Epigenetic modifications have been identified in cognitive processing, specifically in learning and memory. Lack of histone acetylation has been implicated in…

Author: Brittany Shimanski There are a few diseases that I find an interest in and would potentially like to pursue my bcm441 project on. Hutchinson-Gilford…

Acetyl CoA has many different roles in various pathways, serving in making energy, biosynthesis, and in post-transnational modifications controlling epigenetic gene expression. Wong et al.…

What does it mean to study biochemistry? To study biochemistry, is to study various chemical implications in biological systems (or living things). Biochemistry makes up…