MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 13:42
in Biology & Nature
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs -- snippets of RNA that act as switches to regulate gene expression in these single-celled creatures.