/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Xiang-Jiao%20Yang/rss en /channels/news/brain-development-controlled-epigenetic-factor-243393 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="text-align:left" align="center">±«ÓãÖ±²¥ researchers have discovered, for the first time, the importance of a key epigenetic regulator in the development of the hippocampus, a part of the brain associated with learning, memory and neural stem cells. Epigenetic regulators change the way specific genes function without altering their DNA sequence. By working with mutant mice as models, the research team, led by Prof. Xiang-Jiao Yang, of ±«ÓãÖ±²¥â€™s Goodman Cancer Center &amp; Department of Medicine, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Health Center, was able to link the importance of a specific epigenetic regulator known as BRPF1 to the healthy development of a region in the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/465493126.jpg?itok=iWVK-G3F" width="160" height="160" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">10 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2015</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:30:40 +0000 webfull 108672 at /channels