Yeah. b_b and I were the first to show that functional miRNA is transferred between cells in 2010. Other folk had previously shown that harvesting exosomes that contained miRNAs and then treating cells with them had the effect; but we devised an experiment that showed that a specific miRNA is transferred naively at such a level that it significantly inhibited translation of its targeted protein in neighboring cells. Probably my best work to date. It made the cover of the top cancer journal.
if there was a way to funnel the money spent on attack ads during campaign seasons into convincing people to write to their congressmen… or hell - divert those dollars directly into science… I wrote last year - I should probably do it again this year. Thanks for the reminder.