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Adding to the picture that long non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are essential to gene transcription, researchers identified a handful of ncRNAs that promote the expression of neighboring human genes that code for important regulators of cell development and differentiation.U.A. Orom et al., "Long noncoding RNAs with enhancer-like function in human cells," linkurl:__Cell__,;http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2810%2901011-1 143:46-58, 2010. Evaluated by Leonie Ringrose, Inst of Mol BiotechGmbH, Austria; Antoine Clery, Dominik Theler and Frederic Allain ETH, Switzerland; John Abrams, Univ of Texas Southwestern Med Cntr at Dallas; Herbert Steinbeisser Univ Heidelberg, Germany; Enrique Lara-Pezzi and Nadia Rosenthal, The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Italy. linkurl:Free F1000 Evaluation;http://bit.ly/noncode linkurl:2. iPSCs, hold the retrovirus;http://bit.ly/StemmRNAThe main drawback of reprogramming adult somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells is that using stably integrated retroviruses to trigger the conversion can coax the resulting stem cells into forming tumors. This...
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