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New life sciences research reported from Tufts University, Department of Biomedical Sciences

Published in Blood Weekly, March 13th, 2008

Data detailed in 'Schistosoma mansoni: the dicer gene and its expression' have been presented. According to recent research from the United States, "RNA interference (RNAi) is a gene silencing mechanism that plays an important role in regulating gene expression in many eukaryotes and has become a valuable molecular tool for analyzing gene function. Multi-domain nucleases called Dicer proteins play pivotal roles in RNAi."

"In this paper, we characterize the structure and expression of the Dicer gene from the platyhelminth parasite Schistosoma mansoni. The gene (SmDicer) is over 54kb long and comprises 30 exons that potentially encode a 2641 amino acid protein....

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