Tag: splicing
#2 Story of 2021: Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA
There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components.
Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA
There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components.
More on How Chimps and Humans Differ: Human-Specific Genes
“We don’t splice our RNA the same way chimps do,” says biologist Dr. Ann Gauger, continuing a conversation with host Sarah Chaffee.
As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional
ID proponents have long predicted that functions would be uncovered for such non-coding DNA.
“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast
All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm.