Several conserved microRNAs,or short, highly conserved noncoding RNAs that are targeted to and inhibit (restrain; prohibit; retard or prevent) expression of specific genes, or may be involved in the regulation of limb regeneration across evolutionarily distant species,according to a study published June 29, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Benjamin King and Viravuth Yin from Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory and the University of Maine.
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