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And today’s word is Titurate: to reduce to fine particles. As in, “you need to triturate the tissue 3-5 times in a 1000 microliter pipette to suspend the cells.” Or, “Spaceman Spiff grabbed his triturator gun and vaporized the vile slime monster.”

the epi in epigenetics

After much debate, this is what a few in my lab came up with as a working definition for epigenetics.

From a molecular standpoint, epigenetics consists of modifications to DNA, other than mutations, or chromatin which changes gene expression.