Topics and Expertise: gene regulation

Regulatory DNA opens a window through time

Wed May 12, 2021
Illustration of chromosomes and double helix of DNA
NIH

A DNA double helix and chromosomes inside a cell. A UCSF/Stanford study of Neanderthal and human DNA found over 400 changes to regulatory DNA that may help explain the differences between the hominid relatives.

Research on Neanderthal DNA reveals new details about our evolutionary cousins

Nadav Ahituv, PhD

Fri Mar 1, 2013
Ahituv
Professor

My research focuses on understanding how nucleotide variation in gene regulatory elements can lead to human disease and other phenotypes.

RNA model studies could lead to drugs that halt HIV replication

Thu Jan 2, 2003
Tom James, PhD, chair of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry, UCSF School of Pharmacy, is looking for new drug models that act directly on RNA rather than protein, where most drug work is now being done. Why?