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Tiny brakes for a growing heart

Nature volume 436, pages 181–182 (2005)Cite this article

The discovery of microRNAs has revolutionized many areas of biology. The latest news is that these RNAs seem to regulate the crucial balance between growth and specialization of cardiac cells.

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Figure 1: Heart development and miR-1.

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