FSU associate professor Jamila Horabin just earned a grant to study a genetic ‘master switch.’
With that knowledge, she is now seeking to fully understand how a cellular process in gene regulation called the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) might interfere with or silence the genes assumed to be at work in nearly all forms of disease and cancer. With a greater understanding of the process, her hope is that scientists will one day be able to switch off the gene activity causing cancerous tumors and cardiovascular disease.
Notice that this research involves fruit flies. I kid you not. Wink wink.
