Tiny RNA shown to cause multiple types of leukaemia

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 17:01 in Biology & Nature

Whitehead Institute researchers have shown in mouse models that overexpression of the microRNA 125b (miR-125b) can independently cause leukaemia and accelerate the disease's progression. Their results are published in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...

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