Our brains are made of the same stuff, despite DNA differences

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 12:02 in Biology & Nature

Despite vast differences in the genetic code across individuals and ethnicities, the human brain shows a "consistent molecular architecture," say researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health. The finding is from a pair of studies that have created databases revealing when and where genes turn on and off in multiple brain regions through development.

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