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This Week in PNAS

Dec 13, 2011

In a paper published online in advance in PNAS this week, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's Robert Frost and Eric Olson show that the Let-7 family of miRNAs "regulates glucose metabolism in multiple organs." In a mouse model, Frost and Olson found evidence to suggest "anti-miR-induced Let-7 knockdown as a potential treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus."

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