The Staples Lecture presents Dr. David Bartel The Whitehead Institute, MIT, HHMI (elected to the National Academy in 2011) We study RNA. A major focus is on microRNAs (miRNAs), which are ~22-nt RNAs that specify gene repression by pairing to messenger RNAs (mRNAs) of protein-coding genes. We also investigate other types of short RNAs and […]