Abstract
Biologists have been surprised to discover that most plant and animal cells contain a built-in system to silence individual genes by shredding the RNAs they produce. Biotech companies are already working to exploit it.
- Title
- Censors of the genome
- Creators
- Nelson LauDavid P Bartel (Corresponding Author) - Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
- Publication Details
- Scientific American, Vol.289(2), pp.34-41
- Publisher
- Scientific American, a division of Nature America, Inc
- Identifiers
- 9924103468601921
- Academic Unit
- Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience
- Resource Type
- Journal article