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Science 313 (5785): 305-306

Copyright © 2006 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
A New RNA Dimension to Genome Control

Richard W. Carthew

The discovery of small RNAs, microRNA and siRNA, has revolutionized thinking about the control of gene expression. Now a third new species of small RNA is shown to control gene expression in germline cells.

The author is in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. E-mail: r-carthew{at}northwestern.edu

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