Mysterious snippets of DNA withstand eons of evolution, Stanford study
Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 17:07
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.
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