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Epitranscriptomics: mixed messages

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Pioneering mapmakers have uncovered a surprising variety of abundant RNA modifications that have an apparently critical—but still poorly understood—role in gene regulation.

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Eisenstein, M. Epitranscriptomics: mixed messages. Nat Methods 14, 15–17 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4125

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