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Science 21 December 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5858, pp. 1877 - 1878
DOI: 10.1126/science.1152623
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
The Two Faces of miRNA

J. Ross Buchan and Roy Parker

MicroRNAs can enhance or repress messenger RNA translation, depending on whether cells are proliferating or arrested in the cell cycle.

The authors are in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. E-mail: rrparker{at}email.arizona.edu

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