Includes bibliographical references and index.

MicroRNA biogenesis and cancer / Julia Winter and Sven Diederichs -- Computational identification of miRNAs involved in cancer / Anastasis Oulas, Nestoras Karathanasis, and Panayiota Poirazi -- The principles of miRNA-masking antisense oligonucleotides technology / Zhiguo Wang -- The concept of multiple-target anti-miRNA antisense oligonucleotide technology / Zhiguo Wang -- Modulation of microRNAs for potential cancer therapeutics / Wei Wu -- Detection of microRNAs in cultured cells and paraffin-embedded tissue specimens by in situ hybridization / Ashim Gupta and Yin-Yuan Mo -- MicroRNA northern blotting, precursor cloning, and Ago2-improved RNA interference / Julia Winter and Sven Diederichs -- MiRNA profiling on high-throughput OpenArray system / Elena V. Grigorenko ... [et al.] -- Silicon nanowire biosensor for ultrasensitive and label-free direct detection of miRNAs / Guo-Jun Zhang -- High-throughput and reliable protocols for animal microRNA library cloning / Caide Xiao -- MicroRNA regulation of growth factor receptor signaling in human cancer cells / Keith M. Giles ... [et al.] -- Epigenetic regulation of microRNA expression in cancer / Hani Choudhry and James W.F. Catto -- In vitro functional study of miR-126 in leukemia / Zejuan Li and Jianjun Chen -- Prediction of the biological effect of polymorphisms within microRNA binding sites / Debora Landi ... [et al.] -- The guideline of the design and validation of miRNA mimics / Zhiguo Wang -- Analysis of targets and functions coregulated by microRNAs / Shu-Jen Chen and Hua-Chien Chen -- Utilization of SSCprofiler to predict a new miRNA gene / Anastasis Oulas and Panayiota Poirazi -- MicroRNA profiling using fluorescence-labeled beads : data acquisition and processing / Thomas Streichert, Benjamin Otto, and Ulrich Lehmann.