New insights into how genes are activated
[PRESS RELEASE 2019-01-02] In a study in Nature, researchers at Karolinska Institutet present a new method for analysing how instructions in the genome control how our genes are activated in individual cells. The results give new insights into how the genome encodes for its own use, which increases our basic understanding of how genes are activated in different types of cell in the body in both good and ill health.Almost all cells in the body have the same set of DNA and can in principle become any kind of cell at all. What distinguishes the cells is the way in which the genes in our DNA