Drs. Elstad, McIntyre, Prescott, Weyrich, and Zimmerman demonstrate that activated human platelets translate messenger RNAs, which are basally present in an extensive and diverse endogenous transcriptome, to critical biologically-active proteins, fundamentally altering paradigms in platelet biology.
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