New cause of osteoporosis: Mutation in a miroRNA
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 22:28
in Biology & Nature
Many biological processes are controlled by small molecules known as microRNAs. Researchers have now identified a previously unknown microRNA (miR-2861) as crucial to bone maintenance in mice and humans; significantly, expression of functional miR-2861 was absent in two related adolescents with primary osteoporosis.