Friday Brainfood: Small RNA — Biology’s “Dark Matter”

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Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Regius Professor of Botany in Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge at the Oxofrd Scientific Society  on  “small RNAs” and RNA silencing.

Link to Sir Baulcombe’s Lab:

In this talk Sir Baulcombe explains that small RNA is in effect genetic research’s “dark matter”. He explains that RNA silencing is an epigentic control mechinism introducing heritable variation into DNA.
Sir Baulcombe’s Wikipedia Profile:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baulcombe
Oxford University Scientific Society website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~science/
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