A research associate of mine sent me this a while back.
Thought it might be of interest to anyone who’s been following the seaweed portion of the blog, I can’t remember mentioning it directly.
Hypoxia-mediated downregulation of miRNA biogenesis promotes tumour progression
Here we report a previously unrecognized effect of hypoxia in the downregulation of Drosha and Dicer in cancer cells that leads to dysregulation of miRNA biogenesis and increased tumour progression. (Published
You might notice that the recognition of this effect existing through the study of whale diving patterns was first published back on May 12th, 2012.
-Andrew
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