Tuesday, July 28, 2020

The amazing travels of small RNAs

Biologists have known for some time that RNA interference can silence genes in far-off cells. They suspected that a messenger substance 'transmits' RNA interference. Now, researchers have definitively shown that these messengers in plants are short double-stranded RNA fragments.

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