The RNA alphabet—the key role played by hmC
Friday, January 15, 2016 - 09:03
in Biology & Nature
Led by François Fuks from the ULB's Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics and the ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), researchers have revealed for the first time the key role played by one of the RNA letters, hmC or hydroxymethylation. Published in the prestigious Science journal, their discovery will help us better understand such diseases as cancer.