We are not only eating 'materials', we are also eating 'information'
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 05:00
in Biology & Nature
In a new study, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing university present a rather striking finding that plant miRNAs could make into the host blood and tissues via the route of food-intake. Moreover, once inside the host, they can elicit functions by regulating host "target" genes and thus regulate host physiology.