C.elegans are the classical model system for studying small RNAs, some of which in can transfer information across generations. Prof. Oded Rechavi-led team at Tel Aviv University has discovered three rules that control transgenerational inheritance via small RNA molecules in C.elegans, challenging our traditional concepts regarding the limits of inheritance and evolution.
Obesity is a complex disease associated with having an excess amount of body fat, which can cause complications such as metabolic syndrome, high blood pressure and diabetes. Our bodies contain two typ...
RNA-binding proteins play important roles in maintaining drug resistance of leukemia. In a recent research, team of Dr. Tannishtha Reya from University of California San Diego revealed that the double...