Although they were discovered only in the early 1990s, many regulatory functions of microRNAs — naturally occurring short RNA sequences — have already been reported. The latest news is that they mediate cancer spread.
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Steeg, P. Micromanagement of metastasis. Nature 449, 671–673 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449671a
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