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AMBROS, Victor R. (1953 – )

AMBROS, Victor R. (1953 – )

1953 –

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Arthur Petron · Own work · CC BY-SA 4.0

1993 CE

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The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14.

Ambros and colleagues discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA), a small single-stranded non-coding RNA molecule (containing about 22 nucleotides) found in plants, animals and some viruses, that functions in RNA sil…