The Human Genome Is Far More Complex Than Scientists Thought [Science]

The Human Genome Is Far More Complex Than Scientists Thought [Science]:

For the past decade, scientists have been working on the assumption that 20,000 genes, less than 2 percent of the total genome, underpin human biology. But a massive international project called ENCODE has just revealed that plenty of the remaining 98 percent, once tossed aside as "junk DNA", is in fact incredibly important. More »

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