The next morning, I involve to Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, on a KLM plane en route to Sweden. We atterrissons in Stockholm where were born Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman. The archipelago, with its 24 000 islands spread across the Baltic Sea extends over 80 km east of the city. The “City between the bridges”, which mixes the charm of Old World sophistication with urban skyscrapers lies in fourteen islands in Lake Malaren. An elegant train Swedish importee to Huddinge to meet Karl Ekwall (Karolinska Institute).
The subject of Karl, what are the positive and negative regulators of gene expression. “The genes can express themselves differently depending on whether a liver cell or a brain cell, and this can be regulated by epigenetic markers, he says. Some of these markers are changes to the his tones, proteins used to compact basic DNA. Continue reading →