Biologists establish new method for studying RNA's regulatory 'footprint'

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 07:00 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —Increasingly, biologists have come to realize that RNA is not merely a transitional state between DNA and proteins but plays a major role in determining whether and how genes are turned into a protein product. Gaining a deeper understanding of RNA regulation can help scientists shed light on diseases that arise when this function goes awry.

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