Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$138,683.00

Award Date

8/31/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

One of the central presumptions in molecular biology is that RNA functions mainly as an informational intermediate between the DNA sequence of a gene and the protein encoded by it. Although the principle is generally true in basal organisms, human cells c