Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Wired News - MicroRNA Is a Big Topic in Bio

Wired News - MicroRNA Is a Big Topic in Bio:
"Silencing proteins can be a good or a bad thing, depending on the circumstances. Slack's lab recently discovered an miRNA that can stop a gene from producing a protein that causes lung cancer. It published the discovery in the March issues of the journals Cell and Developmental Cell."