A new player in the innate immunity game?
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 22:50
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a certain class of RNA (known as long non-protein-coding RNA [lncRNA]) are involved in the host response to viral infection. These findings, published today in the online journal mBio®, could greatly change the way scientists look at the body's response to viral infection.