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Biotechjunk DNAgenomes Dark Matterimportantfunctions Sci
Biotechjunk DNAgenomes Dark Matterimportantfunctions Sci
Biotechjunk DNAgenomes Dark Matterimportantfunctions Sci
were startled to learn that there were fewer in a cell was messenger RNA generated by Many mysteries about the genome’s dark
than 35,000. (The current count is 21,000.) protein-coding genes, RNA in ribosomes, or matter are still under investigation. Even
Protein-coding regions accounted for just a sprinkling of other RNA elsewhere. But so, the overall picture is clear: 10 years ago,
1.5% of the genome. Could the rest of our surveys by Thomas Gingeras, now at Cold genes had the spotlight all to themselves.
DNA really just be junk? Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, Now they have to share it with a large, and
The deciphering of the mouse genome and Michael Snyder, now at Stanford Uni- growing, ensemble.
in 2002 showed that there must be more versity in Palo Alto, California, found a lot –ELIZABETH PENNISI