The 5′ seed model has been successful in identifying potential targets of microRNA families, but we need a better understanding of the roles of nucleotides outside the seed for parsing the roles ...

Most of their effects come from a part known as the "seed" region, which allows them to ... have long suspected that other regions of the microRNA might also matter and until now, those effects ...

Canadian biotech startup Afynia Laboratories, a spin-out from McMaster University in Ontario, has picked up $5 million in seed funding to ... for the presence of microRNA — tiny molecules ...