Noncoding RNA may promote Alzheimer's disease

Monday, May 30, 2011 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Researchers pinpoint a small RNA that spurs cells to manufacture a particular splice variant of a key neuronal protein, potentially promoting Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other types of neurodegeneration. The study appears in the May 30 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology.

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