When just one of the thousands of microRNAs in people go awry, it can cause diseases ranging from heart disease to cancer.
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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.
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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