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Nature Neuroscience 7, 100 - 102 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nn0204-100

Taking sides in the nervous system with miRNA

Piali Sengupta1

  1. The author is in the Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA. e-mail: sengupta@brandeis.edu


The mechanisms by which bilateral asymmetry is established in the nervous system are poorly understood. A recent report in Nature describes a novel microRNA that mediates left–right asymmetry in a pair of C. elegans chemosensory neurons.

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