Scientists uncover new class of mammalian genes with key functions

Monday, February 2, 2009 - 15:56 in Biology & Nature

A research team at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has uncovered a vast new class of previously unrecognized mammalian genes that do not encode proteins, but instead function as long RNA molecules.read more

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