Scientists home in on microRNA processing for novel cancer therapies

(Virginia Commonwealth University) More than a decade of research on the mda-7/IL-24 gene has shown that it helps to suppress a majority of cancer types, and now scientists are focusing on how the gene drives this process by influencing microRNAs. Published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the findings could potentially have implications beyond cancer for a variety of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases caused by the same microRNA-driven processes.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news