‘Junk DNA’
Antarctic krill genome is biggest yet at 48.01 Gb
“Junk DNA” to blame for humans’ big brains?
Why “junk DNA” sequences are not deleted: Because Evolution, we are told, “rejects them”
At Sci News: Ancient Retroviruses Make Up 8% of Human Genome, Researchers Say
At Medical Xpress: Breaks in ‘junk’ DNA give scientists new insight into neurological disorders
At Phys.org: Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA
At Mind Matters News: Jumping genes … a new clue to octopus intelligence?
New distinctions help accommodate researchers to the usefulness of “junk DNA”
Another paper on the uses of junk DNA — which means something else for Dan Graur to be grumpy about
Rebranding some junk DNA as spam DNA
Intelligent Design=Pattern Recognition
This Phys.Org press release isn’t about a particularly interesting scientific paper. However, what the authors tells us about how this paper came to be is very interesting. And, I may add, very revealing. Listen to what they have to say about their “aha” moment: Inside some of the data that a standard mapping algorithm normally clips out, Zhang and postdoctoral fellow Xiaolong Chen, Ph.D., recognized that the clipped pattern in the DNA looked like an L1 inside of the FOXR2 gene. In a moment of serendipity, Diane Flasch, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow who previously worked with L1s, recognized the signs of an L1 regulatory element. The researchers performed a special technique that sequences longer regions of DNA to decode the Read More ›