A Tiny Helper Lightens the Maternal Load
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In a recent issue of Science, the puzzle of how a large number of maternal mRNAs can be coordinately destroyed at the mid-blastula transition of early animal embryogenesis is solved. The mysterious agent is not a protein but rather a microRNA that is transcribed at this transition point.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cell
دوره 124 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006