Mysterious snippets of DNA withstand eons of evolution, Stanford study
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 08:28
in Biology & Nature
Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbor a big secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. There's one problem: We don't know what it is. Although individual laboratory animals appear to live happily when these genetic ciphers are deleted, these snippets have been highly conserved throughout evolution.