Non-coding RNA: A new frontier in regulatory biology

National Science Review

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 190-204

  Fu, Xiang Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological functions; Experimental approaches; Functional genomics; Non coding RNA; Regulatory mechanisms; The RNA world

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924233980     PISSN: 20955138     EISSN: 2053714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwu008     Document Type: Review

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