Researchers identify another potential biomarker
January 26th, 2009
AÂ recently discovered class of molecules called microRNA regulate the gene expression changes in airway cells that occur with smoking and lung cancer researchers say.
In a study that appears in the on-line early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated that these molecules could lead to a new, relatively non-invasive biomarker for smoking-related lung diseases.