Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Amount

$100,001.00

Award Date

1/20/2010

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

MicroRNAs bind to sites in target mRNAs' 3'UTR and (principally) inhibit translation to protein. Since binding of microRNAs does not depend on full complementarity with their target sequences, microRNAs can bind to and block protein translation of many di