Tag: transcriptome
Disease-Associated “Junk” DNA Is Evidence of Function
When you mess with the “junk,” the result is problems. That doesn’t sound like junk DNA to me.
Introducing the Unknome, Biology’s Black Box
Biology is becoming overwhelmed by new vistas of dynamic complexity. Attempts to get a handle on this complexity has ushered in the era of Omics.
More Jobs for “Junk” DNA
It turns out the mouse endogenous retrovirus L (MERVL) is essential for embryogenesis, according to a recently published article.
Birds and Bats: How Bright Is Evolutionary Light?
The media are generous with claims that new findings “shed light” on evolution.
Electric DNA, Circular RNA, and Other Epigenetic Wonders
There’s a lot more going on in those sequences of nucleotides than we could have imagined.