October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. Like a lot of our American partners (Rockland, Cedarlane), tebu-bio has decided to participate in this action.  So… October will be pink at tebu-bio!

Breast Cancer is a major public health concern. It’s considered that one woman in nine will develop breast cancer during her life. The earlier breast cancer is detected, the higher the chances are of being cured.

Well, in the previous posts leading up to this final one in the series, we looked at microRNA detection, overexpression, inhibition, and target detection. I’d like to finish by going over miRNA profiling.

Leading on from my previous posts (see below) exploring microRNA detection, overexpression and inhibition, this time, let’s spend a moment on target detection.

miTarget databases

There are many online resources to find the target of a given miRNA, such as:

Following on in our series on microRNAs (miRNA – Keys to open cell biology’s secret chamber) , in this post, we’ll be taking a look at Antagomirs (which are also called anti-miRs or blockmirs). These chemically engineered oligonucleotides prevent other molecules from binding to a desired site on an mRNA molecule. They’re used to silence endogenous microRNA.