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U-M press release and article featuring our recent Cell Reports article: Resolving Subcellular miRNA Trafficking and Turnover at Single-Molecule Resolution
‘Detective’ iSHiRLoC investigates role of RNA, could help researchers study genesis of cancer A team of University of Michigan scientists have developed a tool to help them study dysfunction in cells by tracking a molecule called microRNA, possibly giving them a way to determine how cancer occurs and spreads in…
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Our paper on KRAS-Ago2 interaction featured by the NCI, Science daily and Science (Editor’s choice)
KRAS gets the silencing treatment Mutations in the KRAS protooncogene drive the growth of some of the most lethal human tumors, including pancreatic and lung cancers. Efforts to pharmacologically inhibit KRAS itself, or components of its well-studied signaling pathway, have been largely unsuccessful. Shankar et al. considered the possibility that…
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The 2016 AACR-Bayer Prostate Cancer Research Fellowship was awarded to Sethu
Sethu Pitchiaya was awarded the 2016 AACR-Bayer Prostate Cancer Fellowship to study androgen receptor regulation by long non-coding RNA (lncRNA; a non-coding RNA is an RNA molecule that is not translated into a protein).
Pitchiaya Lab 