Researchers discover how DHA omega-3 fatty acid reaches the brain

(Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore ) Researchers from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore have conducted a new study identifying that the transporter protein Mfsd2a carries DHA to the brain. Their findings have widespread implications for how DHA functions in human nutrition. Published online in Nature, the week of May 12, 2014, the study marks the first time a genetic model for brain DHA deficiency and its functions in the brain has been made available.