Cell-cell contact activates piRNA biogenesis
Our study revealed that cell-cell contact globally activates the biogenesis of piRNAs, which suggests the alteration of cell density as…
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The biogenesis pathway of tRNA-derived piRNAs
Our study revealed the biogenesis pathway of tRNA-derived piRNAs and provided the example of how specific expression profiles of tRNA-derived…
New RNA matters talk Nikos Kyrpides
Nikos Kyrpides, PhD, Prokaryote Super Program Head, DOE Joint Genome Institute will give the 3rd and final RNA matters talk…
N-BLR: a pyknon-containing, primate-specific long non-coding RNA
The pyknon-containing N-BLR is a novel modulator of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal-transition process and of the apoptotic pathway in colorectal cancer We…
Anindya Dutta upcoming talk
Anindya Dutta will be giving the second RNA matters talk of this year! Please click here to view more details.…
Todd M. Lowe’s talk is available
Todd M. Lowe’s latest addition to the RNA matters lectures is available on our video page. Please, click here to…
Assessment of isomiR Discrimination Using Commercial qPCR Methods
We investigated whether Taqman and LNA miRNA qPCR methods can sufficiently discriminate closely related miRNA isoforms or isomiRs.1 Commercial quantitative…
Todd Lowe upcoming talk!
Todd Lowe will give the first 2017 RNA matters talk on Wednesday April 19th! The title of the talk is…
MINTmap: fast and exhaustive profiling of nuclear and mitochondrial tRNA fragments from short RNA-seq data
Here we present MINTmap (for MItochondrial and Nuclear TRF mapping), a method and a software package that was developed specifically…
Knowledge about the presence or absence of miRNA isoforms (isomiRs) can successfully discriminate amongst 32 TCGA cancer types
We utilized a machine learning approach to predict the cancer type based only on a binary profile of which miRNAs…