New Brain Cell Growth Controlled By Epigenetic Switch
Friday, January 9, 2009 - 00:49
in Biology & Nature
New cells are born every day in the brain's hippocampus, but what controls this birth has remained a mystery. Reporting in Science, neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered that the birth of new cells depends on a protein that is involved in changing epigenetic marks in the cell's genetic material. read more
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