Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$105,620.00

Award Date

2/12/2010

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 (miRNAs) are an abundant family of endogenous approx 21nt small RNAs that repress gene expression post-transcriptionally. More than 4percent of the human genes encode for miRNAs and current estimates suggest that miRNAs could target more than 30