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Duke University

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RNA (yellow) moves quickly toward the uppermost layer of the brain along the path of neural stem cells (red). Duke researchers visualized this phenomenon in living cells, and found that a protein implicated in Fragile X syndrome is important to this RNA transit system.

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Louis-Jan Pilaz, Duke University

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