title: Focus issue: RNA, a multifunctional molecule.
abstract: This week's issues of Science, Science's STKE, and SAGE KE (www.sciencemag.org/sciext/rna/) focus on the increasing complexity that RNA brings to cellular biology. STKE resources include Reviews, Perspectives, and Teaching Resources. STKE specifically looks at the roles for small RNAs in regulation of gene expression and how mRNAs can be selectively activated from cytoplasmic macromolecular structures, RNA granules, to contribute to such processes as synaptic plasticity.
authors.forename: Nancy R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Gough
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Adler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000502:physiology; D012313:RNA / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D034622:RNA Interference; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012313:RNA