Tag: ERVs
New “Long Story Short” Video Addresses Challenges from Junk DNA Defenders
Of course, die-hard evolution defenders were not going to take these major shifts in thinking about “junk DNA” sitting down.
New “Long Story” Short: “ERVs, Pseudogenes, & Onions”
Intelligent design is a “science stopper”? It “makes people stupid”? These are among the claims of some smart scientists who ought to know better.
Did Dr. Dan Make Us Change Our Position on Junk DNA?
This claim is totally false and it perhaps reflects Dr. Dan’s wish to find a positive spin on the substance of what happened during the debate.
Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses
It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design.
Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”
A pair of new articles in Nature Genetics acknowledge just how widespread ERV and retrotransposon functionality is.