Researchers Develop Technique to Count Messages Made by Single Genes

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 17:22 in Biology & Nature

In a study in the advance online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a cell's life - a gene, DNA, being read into a message, mRNA. The technique could provide a window into the process by which genes are switched on inappropriately, causing disease.

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