Scientists Win Lasker for micro-RNA Discovery

[bufuman]

what crap

[Fly2Azeroth]

@bufuman No trolling

[heartlessvietboy]

If you guys aren't listening, I WILL MAKE YOU LISTEN.

[DoubleDutchBust]

5:58am Monday (CDT) - Time in Mississippi, United States

[DoubleDutchBust]

0:59

[fazholio]

Hyped up for funding.....good bye gene therapy , wellcome MiRNAs......lol

[Devoidist]

Don't worry gene therapy will not be useless cause it has its uses that MiRNA can't solve like sickle cell anaemia

[Jenfucius]

Exactly!

Gene therapy has many potential applications.

[maxdelbruck]

Wow!

[qufighter]

here is a simple example: there is/are genes that makes animals eat fats and sweets like crazy because they are rare in nature. Except human society now has these items readily available to everyone. Our genes still tell us to eat all we can, so we get fat, since our genes are very slow to break a rule that worked well for millions of years. If we can switch off genes as they become irrelevant, or switch them on again, we can live lives more in sync with the current state of things.

[osmosisazman]

RNA silencing? This could be used as a cure to AIDS.

[Gravity0Wave]

This combined with nanotechnology is the future of medicine

[urumqilik]

this is huge

[MediaMama111]

Just goes to show you. One person's junk is another person's gold.

[GrahamAndFriends]

very interesting.

[DerFlo4711]

Intresting