For a long time dismissed as "junk DNA",we now know that also the regions between the genes fulfil vital functions. Mutations in those DNA regions can severely impair development in humans and may lead to serious diseases later in life. Until now, however, or regulatory DNA regions believe been hard to find. Scientists around Prof. Julien Gagneur,Professor for Computational Biology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Prof. Patrick Cramer at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen believe now developed a method to find regulatory DNA regions which are active and controlling genes.
Source: phys.org