{"id":2558,"date":"2008-01-11T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/11\/new-twist-in-microrna-biology\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T19:00:00","slug":"new-twist-in-microrna-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/new-twist-in-microrna-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"New Twist in microRNA biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>MIT scientists have found a new way that DNA can carry out its work that is about as surprising as discovering that a mold used to cast a metal tool can also serve as a tool itself, with two complementary shapes each showing distinct functional roles.Professor Manolis Kellis and postdoctoral research fellow Alexander Stark report in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Genes &#038; Development that in certain DNA sequences, both strands of a DNA segment can perform useful functions, each encoding a distinct molecule that helps control cell functions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a full press report <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2008\/micro-rna-0109.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT scientists have found a new way that DNA can carry out its work that is about as surprising as discovering that a mold used to cast a metal tool can also serve as a tool itself, with two complementary shapes each showing distinct functional roles.Professor Manolis Kellis and postdoctoral research fellow Alexander Stark report &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/new-twist-in-microrna-biology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Twist in microRNA biology<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[101],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Fg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}