All known RNA-silencing effector complexes contain a member of the Argonaute family that binds to small non-coding RNAs: the Piwi-protein subfamily binds to Piwi-interacting (pi)RNAs. These small ...

"The discovery of Traffic Jam's function in flies will help us look into humans with infertility symptoms and see if those patients lacking functional sperm may have defects in these Piwi genes ...