The Fall 2014 HHMI Bulletin profiles IIGB/CEPCEB researcher Xuemei Chen and her seminal work on noncoding RNAs and stem cells. Dr. Chen has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation investigator since 2012.

To read about her work studying how MicroRNAs are made, their role, how they do their work and how they avoid destruction, please visit:

• HHMI Bulletin, Fall 2014, Vol. 27, No. 3: The Silencer MicroRNA