#1050 David Henshall - Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm joined by Dr. David Henshel, he's professor of molecular physiology and neuroscience in the Department of Physiology and Medical Physics at the Roy College of Surgeons in Ireland. And we're and today we're going to talk about his book, Fine Tuning Life, A Guide to Micro RNAs. Your genome's master regulator. So, Dr. Henshall, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to have you. Thank you very much for having me. I'm delighted to be here. Well, I guess that this uh interview is very timely just because very recently someone won a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine due to discoveries surrounding micro RNA. So uh but before we get into micro RNA specifically
Just to perhaps familiarize the audience with some of the Basic s What would you say are the most important things for people to understand about DNA and RNA? for then for them to then understand the rest of our conversation surrounding micro R and E.
So yeah, we can start perhaps with DNA, because that's the the molecule that I think everyone is most familiar with. So DNA or dioxyronucleic acid is the genetic material that we have in all the cells in our in our bodies. It's essentially a program instructions for building an organism. In our case, so our DNA is contains the information to build a a human. And obviously, once that human is built.
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