Long intervening non-coding RNAs play pivotal roles in brain development
Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have identified conserved, long intervening non-coding RNAs that play key roles during brain development in zebrafish, and went on to show that the human versions of these RNAs can substitute for the zebrafish lincRNAs. Until now, lincRNAs have been studied primarily in cell lines rather than at the organismal level, which has precluded research into how lincRNAs affect growth and development.