Yale Scientists Find MicroRNA Regulates Ras Cancer Gene
Research in the laboratory of Assistant Professor Frank J. Slack at Yale University has identified a new way that a familiar gene is regulated in lung cancer, presenting new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment. The work is reported in March issues of the journals Cell and Developmental Cell. The oncogene Ras is out of control in about 20 percent of cancers where it is over-expressed...Cooperation is key—a new way of looking at MicroRNA and how it controls gene expression
A group of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute is reporting a discovery that sheds light on an area of research fundamental to everything from the normal processes that govern the everyday life of human cells to the aberrant mechanisms that underlie many diseases, including cancer and septic shock. The discovery concerns tiny fragments of RNA known as microRNA and their relations...NYU, Rockefeller researchers find complexity of regulation by microRNA genes
Collaborating researchers at New York University and Rockefeller University have discovered that microRNA genes, which have recently been shown to have key roles in gene regulation, can team up and regulate target genes in mammals. MicroRNAs are a recently discovered large class of regulatory, non-coding genes, which bind to partially complementary sites in target messenger RNA to regulate their...MicroRNAs play a big part in gene regulation - and evolution
Regulating when and where certain proteins are made is crucial to the normal functioning of living things. To make proteins, information from DNA is transcribed into RNA molecules and then translated into the amino acids building blocks of proteins. But not all genes code for proteins--some make RNA molecules called microRNAs. These small RNA molecules interfere with--and therefore control--the p...Molecular steps involved in the creation of gene-silencing microRNAs identified
First discovered only a few brief years ago, microRNAs are small, remarkably powerful molecules that appear to play a pivotal role in gene silencing, one of the body's main strategies for regulating its genome. A scant 22 nucleotides in length, miRNAs appear to work by binding to and somehow interfering with messenger RNA, itself responsible for translating genes into proteins. But how do...microRNA Expression Profiling - Comprehensive Service from LC Sciences
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The miRNA gene family contains hundreds of translation regulators, yet their presence and function has only recently been reported in the literature (see <A...MicroRNA Profiling by Array Analysis Reveals Critical BioMarkers
Jaclyn Shingara, Kerri Keiger, Ila Wolf, Jeffrey Shelton, Emmanuel Labourier, and David Brown R&D Division, Ambion, Inc. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, siRNA-like molecules, encoded in the genomes of plants and animals,...Highly Sensitive microRNA Array Performance
Vana miRNA Labeling Kit MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are extremely small RNA species that represent approximately 0.01% of the total mass of RNA in a sample (10 g total RNA contains ~1 ng miRNA). Due...Getting Started with MicroRNA Research
Illumination of a Critical Regulation Pathway of Protein Expression MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a recently identified class of cellular RNAs that regulate protein expression at the translational level. The active, mature miRNAs are 1724 base, single-stranded RNA molecules...The let-7 microRNA Family Regulates RAS: Implications for Development and Oncogenesis
Drs. Frank Slack, Steven Johnson, and Helge Grosshans, and Ms. Kristy Reinert at Yale University, in collaboration with Ambion scientists, discovered that the microRNA (miRNA) family regulates the expression of C. elegans...MicroRNA provides new insight into birth defects
Molecules of microRNAs may be responsible for birth defects, cancer and other health problems.// The researchers of UF Genetics Institute have used genetically modified mice to see how the microRNAs are responsible for the physiological growth of animals. When the mice were grown without the microRNA molecules they grew to be malformed and with nonfunctional limbs. MicroRNA...Cancer diagnosis easier from microRNA
MicroRNA profile analysis has been developed as a tool to diagnose cancer by scientists of Broad Institute// of MIT and Harvard. Researchers have also been able to develop a technology that will be able to test the microRNA profile through an easy and not expensive diagnostic test. MicroRNA (miRNA) are small RNA molecules that control the level of proteins made from transcribed genes....microRNA And Its Role In Synaptic Regulation
microRNA belong to the non-coding region of the genome. They play a very important role in regulating the other gene activities like synapses. Researchers at Children's Hospital, Boston says that they are involved in the development of the nervous system.// Synapses are the junctions where the brain cells communicate with each other. This region is very important in the process of developing lea...Role Of MicroRNAs In Angiogenesis Researched
According to recent research, MicroRNAs are fine targets for future therapies.Researchers belonging to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary //Medicine have demonstrated how microRNA molecules are responsible for the growth of blood vessels in a human colon cancer model. This process, known as angiogenesis, is a result of the ravenous cancer cells using blood vessels to gorge on a...Pair of MicroRNA Molecules Controls Major Oncogene in Most Common Leukemia
Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered that two microRNA (miRNA) molecules help control the oncogene responsible for a dangerous form of B-cell chronic// lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), the most common human leukemia in the world. Their findings, published in the December 15 issue of Cancer Research, demonstrate that miRNAs are emerging as powerful regulators of gene exp...Rosetta Genomics and Weizmann Institute Scientists Identify Role of microRNA in Cancer Suppression
Findings Published in Molecular Cell Show Potential of microRNAs asNovel Cancer Drug Targets REHOVOT, Israel and NORTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, July 05, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rosetta Genomics Ltd , a leading microRNAcompany, announced today research published in the journalMolecular Cell by scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Scienceand Rosetta Genomics . The findings suggest...