Scientists uncover new class of non-protein coding genes in mammals with key functions

A research team at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre has uncovered a vast new class of previously unrecognised mammalian genes that do not encode proteins, but instead function as long RNA molecules. Their findings, presented in the 1st February advance online issue of the journal Nature, demonstrate that this novel class of 'large intervening non-coding RNAs' or 'lincRNAs' plays critical roles in both health and disease, including cancer, immune signalling and stem cell biology...

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