Team Discovers that 3'UTR Shortening Actually Turns Tumor-Suppressing Genes Off

Researchers say they have uncovered new information that more accurately explains how cancerous tumors grow within the body. Their study (“ 3’ UTR shortening represses tumor-suppressor genes in trans by disrupting ceRNA crosstalk ”) appears in  Nature Genetics . The team, led by scientists at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Baylor College of Medicine, found that losing a section of messenger RNA that was previously thought to transfor