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microRNA: A cellular communicator

News: DNA Decoding    July 16, 2010
Discovered only about fifteen years ago, research on the non-coding variant of RNA called microRNA (or miRNA) continues to expand its role. New work by Chen-Yu Zhang and colleagues at five Chinese institutions has identified miRNA as an important cell-to-cell and cell-to-organ communication mechanism, one that is more versatile than the traditional notion of cellular [...]
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Biological clocks: RNA keeps time

News: DNA Decoding    December 1, 2009
It was suspected for centuries and confirmed by scientific studies decades ago – animals, including human beings, have internal ‘clocks.’ That is, many of our biological processes run on a schedule, and that schedule is maintained by some kind of biological equivalent to a clock. Now, in work that is highly characteristic of ‘the molecular [...]
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