A milestone in small RNA biology
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 15:21
in Biology & Nature
Organisms are in a constant battle against viruses that invade their genomes. Among their most effective weapons are silencing pathways that use small RNAs to selectively target invading nucleic acids for their destruction. Scientists have now unravelled the precise mechanisms by which germline cells produce a class of small RNAs, called piRNAs, that control transposon silencing in animals.