Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...

The non-coding genome, once referred to as "junk DNA," is now understood to be a fundamental regulator of gene expression and ...

Tiny "hidden" proteins lurking in DNA once dismissed as junk may hold the key to the next generation of obesity drugs, ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as 'junk' and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell Genomics ...

This study proves that DNA once written off as junk is actually part of the sophisticated system that helps build and run your body. It’s a reminder that evolution doesn’t waste what it can reuse.

Scientists casually referred to “junk DNA” as far back as the 1960s, but they took up the term more formally in 1972, when the geneticist and evolutionary biologist Susumu Ohno used it to ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...