The OpenHelix Blog

As you may know, we’ve been doing tips-of-the-week for three years now. We have completed around 150 little tidbit introductions to various resources. At the end of the year we’ve established a sort of holiday tradition: we are doing a summary post to collect them all. If you have missed any of them it’s a great way [...]

microRNAs have become a rich source of research as they probably have a huge effect on gene expression and disease. The human genome may encode over 1,000 miRNAs that target over half of our genes. They might be implicated in a lot of common diseases (which not yet have been picked up in GWAS studies?). [...]