Role for miR-21 in regulating certain cancer cells

31 August 2008

Regulus Therapeutics, a joint venture between US RNAi specialists Alnylam and Isis, say that new data has been reported on the role of a microRNA known as miR-21 in regulating certain cancer cells.

Researchers at Regulus, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, discovered a new role for miR-21 in glioblastoma multiforme, the most malignant and aggressive form of glioma, a primary brain tumor. The data were published in the latest edition of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

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