endogenous retroviruses – Uncommon Descent

'Junk DNA'

Junk DNA: Less junk than ever, it seems

Researchers: “Long disregarded as junk DNA or genomic dark matter, endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) have turned out to represent important components of the antiviral immune response. “

relatd There is NO reason to believe that a factual origin story will appear. None. There is NO reason to believe... – Remember when the lab-leak theory of...
relatd CD at 1, Scientific American has gone off the deep end. Creating problems where none exist and mixing different concepts... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
relatd The most common problem afflicting the West today is sexual immorality. Sex outside of marriage was condemned in the past... – Are We Free?
relatd SA at 382, Lying must be the most common things Leftists do. How else can distorted and abnormal things end... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
relatd JH at 375, I see you're disappointed that there's no Atheist majority. – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
kairosfocus Would we regard the words of a contract like we are seeing being proposed? The US Constitution is comparable, and... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
Seversky How can the body be at war with itself? Auto-immune disease? – Are We Free?
Querius Silver Asiatic @3, A superdeterministic system requires a cause. Something would have to cause everything to be “pre-determined” including our... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
kairosfocus ET (attn FH): In addition, there is the pretence of getting functionally complex specific organisation and associated information, algorithms, code,... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
ET Fred Hickson: I repeat that RNA World drives a coach and horses through your idea that aaRSs could not have... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
ET Fred Hickson: What symbolism is there in the process of DNA to protein transcription/translation? That mRNA codons REPRESENT amino acids,... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
ET Fred Hickson: But the fact is using the words “code, coding, encoding, translating” etc when talking about DNA and the... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
chuckdarwin Ba77 & SA You both appear smart and well-educated, which is why it is frustrating when you don't deal with... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
Lieutenant Commander Data ET Fred Hickson: Szostak et al. engineered a ribozyme to perform as an amino-acyl tRNA synthetase. OK. That doesn’t mean... – How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?
TAMMIE LEE HAYNES Oh, come on. Follow the Science Lancet, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the WHO, the CDC, Dr Fauci,... – Remember when the lab-leak theory of...
Blastus Interesting that free will has also long been debated in Christian circles between those who follow the teachings of John... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
bornagain77 Q: "nor do they involve any symbols or actual intelligence as he has repeatedly and convincingly demonstrated here to everyone’s... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Querius Fred Hickson is on to something in his assertion that “language” doesn’t actually exist. As he boldly asserts, what we're... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
Silver Asiatic A superdeterministic system requires a cause. Something would have to cause everything to be "pre-determined" including our own thoughts and... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
PaV The central question is, and always has been, who or what brought a bat virus more than a thousand miles... – Remember when the lab-leak theory of...
Silver Asiatic JHolo is clueless. No one is rewriting the US Constitution. JHolo said previously in this thread: I find it sad,... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...