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Recycled DNA

The majority of our DNA does not code for protein or RNA and does not seem to regulate how the information is used.  Sometimes referred to as “junk” DNA, these regions make up about 98.5 % of our genome.  Is this DNA really junk?  Scientists have recently identified a section of “junk” DNA that can regain [...]

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