Small RNAs tell big stories in Whistler

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 630-633

  Seila, Amy C ^a   Sharp, Phillip A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DICER; DRUG CARRIER; DYNAMIC POLYCONJUGATE; HELICASE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOSOME; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN LET 7; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BIOGENESIS; BREAST CANCER; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANADA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESISTANCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 44649124293     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb0608-630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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