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MicroRNA is the Nobel-winning master regulator of the genome – researchers are learning to treat disease by harnessing how it controls genes

  • Written by Andrea Kasinski, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
MicroRNA is the Nobel-winning master regulator of the genome – researchers are learning to treat disease by harnessing how it controls genesRNA is more than just a transitional state between DNA and protein.Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

When Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered a new molecule they called microRNA in the 1980s, it was a fascinating diversion from what for decades had been called the central dogma of molecular biology.

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