A standard operation procedure to effectively detect dietetically absorbed plant miRNAs

In a new study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, Chen-Yu Zhang, Xi Chen and Ke Zen’s group at Nanjing University systematically characterized the kinetics of plant microRNAs…

Genetic Material From Food Unlikely To Get Into Our Blood And Regulate Our Genes

In 2011 and 2012, research from China’s Nanjing University made international headlines with reports that after mice ate, bits of genetic material from the plants they’d ingested could make it into their bloodstreams intact and turn the animals’ own genes off…