Dr Das will present the recent advances on the role of mitochondria in RNA interference by miRNA activity

Dr Samarjit Das, from John Hopkins Unviersity, USA will give a strategic presentation about Mitochondrial microRNA, “MitomiR”: A new Player in Heart Failure. 

According to Dr Das: "The goal of this project is to explore the novel concept that microRNA (miRNA) can regulate mitochondrial biology of the heart, and thereby affect myocardial disease development and progression. The field of miRNA biology has exploded recently, with many studies demonstrating that small non-coding RNA (miRNA) can repress the expression of target genes by post-transcriptional regulation and play a major role in many physiologic and pathologic processes.  Several groups suggested that miRNA exist in mitochondria, but we were the first to show that miRNA exist in heart mitochondria and are functionally important."

If you are interested to know more about the results of this study, don't hesitate to join Targeting Mitochondria World Congress 2015.

For more information: www.targeting-mitochondria.com

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