MiroRNA Creates Barrier to Protect Skin (Part 1)
Breaking research has shown that MicroRNA, a smaller form of RNA is vital to the formation of the skin’s protective barrier. In the research conducted at Rockefeller University, two scientists have noted than MicroRNA-203′s presence in a developing embryo creates a seemingly protective barrier by suppressing the activity of a molecule identified as p63. The inability of MicroRNA-203 cannot suppress the activity of the molecule, is the time when cells start to proliferate spreading like wildfire as shown in their research. It offers not only a view of how skin is formed but may hold the key to why normal skin cells turn cancerous.