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New Research Sheds Light on How Body Parts ‘Talk’ to Each Other

MicroRNAs, tiny molecules that circulate in the bloodstream, could be the key to how diseases from pulmonary hypertension to cancer spread throughout the body, a new study led by Stephen Chan has found.
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