Topics: Research

Process important to brain development studied in detail

6 November 2011 18:01

Knowledge about the development of the nervous system is of the greatest importance to understand the function of the brain and brain disorders. Researchers at Uppsala University have examined the key step when genes are read and found that genes that are active in the brain are transcribed with a special mechanism. The findings, reported in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.

Millions of new regulatory elements found in human genome

12 October 2011 18:39

An international research team led by Kerstin Lindblad-Toh at the Broad Institute, US and Uppsala University, Sweden has mapped and compared the genomes of 29 mammals. The findings, published in Nature, reveal millions of new regulatory elements in the human genome. The new knowledge is important for our understanding of how mutations in human genes give rise to diseases.