Once considered cellular junk, non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in everything from brain development to cancer — ...

The human genome contains about 20,000 protein-coding genes, but that only accounts for roughly two percent of the genome. For many years, it was easier for scientists to simply ignore all of that ...

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To understand the human genome, scientists focused on protein-coding genes and their functions for decades. This has given us ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or so-called 'junk' DNA—includes many of the "switches" that control when and ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have successfully employed an algorithm to identify ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By ...