Growth Of New Brain Cells Requires 'Epigenetic' Switch
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 22:35
in Biology & Nature
New cells are born every day in the brain's hippocampus, but what controls this birth has remained a mystery. Neuroscientists have now discovered that the birth of new cells, which depends on brain activity, also depends on a protein that is involved in changing epigenetic marks in the cell's genetic material.