Some animals use microRNA to protect the brain from various stressors. Understanding how they do this and applying it to humans has potential for revolutionary treatments.
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Jumbo squids live in extreme environments. Tiny genetic modifications allow them to move back and forth from the surface of the ocean to its bottom, killing and eating everything in their path.
Tiny parts of our genome once thought useless are being turned into ways to diagnose and treat disease.
microRNA used to be dismissed as “junk DNA”, but it plays an important role regulating the other genes in our genome.
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Professor of Biochemistry, Carleton University
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Associate Professor, Deputy Head of School Biomedical Engineering, UTS. Australia, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior research associate, University of East Anglia
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PhD Candidate in Molecular Biology, Carleton University
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Ph.D. Student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Carleton University
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Clinical Curation Scientist, Children's Cancer Institute
