FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Only in recent years have scientists begun to understand the role of small, non-protein coding RNA molecules in living cells. Breakthroughs in science and technology have revealed that this newly discovered class of regulatory molecules plays a critical role in cellular processes with applications for understanding both basic biology and complex diseases such as cancer. Researchers now have a new tool to enable the discovery of microRNAs and other small RNA molecules using the latest genomic analysis technology from Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business.