by Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research By studying colonies of fission yeast (pictured), FMI researchers identified more than 20 mutations that enable RNA-mediated epigenetic gene silencing. Credit: Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Long considered ‘junk,” non-coding RNAs have emerged as important regulators of diverse cellular processes, including the silencing of genes. Working in yeast, researchers from the Bühler group have...
