Researchers at Princeton University have found that microRNAs โ small bits of genetic material capable of repressing the expression of certain genes โ may serve as both therapeutic targets and predictors of metastasis, or a cancer’s spread from its initial site to other parts of the body. The research wasย published in the journalย Cancer Cell.
MicroRNAs are specifically useful for tackling bone metastasis, which occurs in about 70 percent of patients with late-stage cancer, said senior authorย Yibin Kang, Princeton’s Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor ofย Molecular Biology.
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