Ryan Golden and Dr. Joshua Mendell (IMAGE)

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Ryan Golden and Dr. Joshua Mendell

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Ryan Golden (left) and Dr. Joshua Mendell (right) uncovered a new mechanism that allows microRNAs to engage target messenger RNAs, silence them, and then efficiently move on to the next target. The microRNA pathway is critically important to health and disease, serving as a kind of volume control for genes.

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UT Southwestern Medical Center

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