Netherlands

New species are more likely to evolve if parents guard their offspring than if they allow them to drift away on ocean currents to make it on their own in the big deep blue.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an abundant class of endogenous small RNA molecules that downregulate gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. This study by Rune Andreassen, Oslo and Akershus University, et al, aims to identify and characterize miRNA genes in …