KATMAP: A new way to understand and predict gene splicing

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...
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'Junk' DNA Could Be Recruited to Destroy Cancer Cells From Within

An international team led by researchers from King's College London (KCL) has now found that stubbornly persistent blood cancers can 'wake up' TEs as part of the mechanisms that lead to cancer cells ...
Labroots

A 'Junk DNA' Mutation That Prevents a Disease

Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions of the cell, the rest of the genome cannot be ignored. However, for decades ...
News Medical

Deletion of long non-coding RNA linked to rare neurodevelopmental disorder

When a gene produces too much protein, it can have devastating consequences on brain development and function. Patients with an overproduction of protein from the chromodomain helicase DNA binding ...
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Scientists turn junk DNA into a cancer-fighting weapon

Recent scientific breakthroughs have transformed the once-dismissed non-coding DNA, or “junk DNA,” into a targeted weapon ...