MicroRNA: The 'junk' genetic material with huge potential to fight cancer and dementia
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 09:10
in Biology & Nature
Only 1.1% of the nearly 3 billion molecules that make up our genome actually provide genetic instructions. When scientists first worked out what the sequence of letters in our genome was, they originally estimated that as much as 24% of it was useless junk. (The rest comprised duplications and the bits between genes without a known function).