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"The known world of RNA is expanding faster than that of any other cellular building block. The latest additions are types of long and short non-coding RNAs formed by bidirectional transcription and unusual processing. The relationship between DNA, RNA and protein is no longer as simple as we once thought — that specific genomic sequences are transcribed into messenger RNAs, which are then translated into proteins. In recent years, a flurry of studies has reported the existence of a large and growing family of non-protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), describing the different mechanisms of their transcription and their role in regulating gene expression." Full article @ Nature

Labels: complexity, gene regulation, RNA