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New Research on Apoptosis from Tarbiat Modares University Summarized

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 5th, 2011

2011 JUL 5 -- A new study, "The oncogenic and tumour suppressive roles of microRNAs in cancer and apoptosis," is now available. According to the authors of a study from Tehran, Iran, "MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding, endogenous RNAs that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. MiRNAs play important roles in regulating a variety of biological process such as proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis."

"It has been demonstrated that miRNAs have a crucial function in oncogenesis by regulating cell proliferation and apoptosis as oncogenes or tumor suppressors. As several reports have underlined the possible contribution of miRNAs...

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