Volume 33, No 12, Dec 2023

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 33 Issue 12, December 2023: 900-901

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Towards the understanding of “Herbal RNA Code” for traditional medicine

Ying Zhang^1,* , Junchao Shi^2,3,* , Qi Chen²

¹The Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
²Molecular Medicine Program, Department of Human Genetics, and Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
³Present address: Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing, China
Correspondence: Ying Zhang(yingzhanglab@gmail.com)Junchao Shi(shijc@big.ac.cn)

Recent emerging studies have unveiled the presence of millions of herbal small RNAs (sRNAs) in decoction of traditional medicines, suggesting their roles in cross-kingdom communication. Investigating the origins of herbal sRNAs, their delivery mechanisms, and modes of action in alleviating diseases could pave the way for innovative pharmaceutical engineering and novel clinical treatments.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-023-00851-x

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